The current border debate is confusing. Especially since the people who are most passionate about it seem to be on the opposite side of the debate from what logic might dictate. Democrats typically favor some form of open borders allowing thousands of people from Mexico, Central and South America to enter the U.S. each month….
Continue ReadingLogic and the Climate Change Debate
There is perhaps no issue that is more politicized than human influences on climate change. COVID-19 might be a close second. In most surveys I’ve seen, the number of people who believe the concept of global warming is a complete hoax is usually around 18%, almost 1 in 5. I wanted to learn more about…
Continue ReadingConstructs and Religions
In a previous blog entitled Logic and Human Constructs, we discussed the uniquely human ability and tendency to create explanations for things that we observe, especially when we are able to link observations in a cause-and-effect manner. For example, a child living on a farm in a rural area may conclude that a rooster crowing…
Continue ReadingConstructs and Systemic Racism
Some friends and I were engaged in a conversation about police shootings of unarmed black males that were leading to protests and in some cases, riots. I brought up a scenario I had read about where the police officer who fired the fatal shot was black, the police chief of that city was black, the…
Continue ReadingWhy Jalen Rose is Right
The members of the US Olympic men’s basketball team to compete in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics were announced on June 28, 2021. Only one of the selected members of the team, Kevin Love of the Cleveland Cavaliers, is white. Jalen Rose, a former NBA player and current ESPN commentator, said the following on his radio…
Continue ReadingThe Wealth Gap: Income
A 2018 study published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland looked at a variety of possible causes of the stubborn wealth gap between white Americans and African-Americans including generational wealth, home ownership and investment returns. They determined the most influential cause of the wealth gap is the income gap. We looked at some ways…
Continue ReadingThe Wealth Gap: Education Part 2
In the previous blog we discussed how expanding school choice in primary and secondary schools might lead to better educational outcomes for African American students, leading eventually to better career outcomes. The next step is to look at training after high school. Of course our society needs more black CEOs and doctors, so ensuring that…
Continue ReadingThe Wealth Gap: Education Part 1
There is no question that the wealth gap between white Americans and African-Americans has remained stubbornly consistent since 1960. Even with all of the Civil Rights legislation that has passed including the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, 1968 and 1991, which outlawed discrimination based on color and race in employment, strengthened voting rights, desegregated schools,…
Continue ReadingLogic, MLK and BLM
When the U.S. civil rights movement gained renewed momentum in the 1950’s, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as the most prominent voice and face of the movement. Dr. King was influenced by Mahatma Gandhi and espoused non-violent civil disobedience as the method for achieving the objectives of the movement. If you watch videos of…
Continue ReadingMore Spock’s Constructs
In a previous blog, I discussed how humans create constructs, narratives, paradigms or presuppositions to fill the gaps between what we observe and what we can’t explain. That article logically leads to the question, “what are More Spock’s presuppositions – what are the things More Spock believes to be true that are unprovable?” Here are…
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