Volume 80, no. 2  Having a precise definition of terms is essential in mathematics, science, and law. There are undefined terms, but these are few and must be obvious and agreed upon by everyone: in […]

Volume 80, no. 1  Philosophy, culture, and forms of governance, like mathematics, are based on “self-evident truths” or axioms. If the axioms are changed, so is everything that follows. Consider a current example: performances of […]

Volume 79, no. 12  According to the American Medical Association, nearly 63% of physicians reported symptoms of burnout at the end of 2021,  up from the already high 38% in 2020, when the COVID pandemic […]

Our science has progressed beyond that of the academy at Lagado in Gulliver’s Travels. One project was “extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to […]

Volume 79, no. 10  October 2023 Some of us are old enough to remember the Pinto, the first subcompact car manufactured and marketed by Ford in the U.S. Just ahead of a mandatory order, Ford […]

 Volume 79, no. 9  September 2023 For decades, programs from both parties have been billed as “public-private partnerships.” While that may be the definition of fascism, it is applauded as having the good part of […]

 Volume 79, no. 8  August 2023 An attempt to transition America—to bring about Barack Obama’s promised “fundamental transformation”—is well underway. The rainbow “Pride” flag is replacing the Stars and Stripes in places like schoolrooms, and […]

Volume 79, no. 7 July 2023 The fear of annihilation by machine has a long history. Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent film Metropolis was an early example. Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: a Space Odyssey was based on […]

Volume 79, no. 6 Our aging “Reagan Republicans” need to take note: Reagan was elected 43 years ago. We are not in Kansas anymore, but the house has not fallen on the Wicked Witch of […]

 Volume 79, no. 5  May 2023 With enormous numbers of pixels, one can create images that look indistinguishable from reality. Virtual reality is now pervasive in entertainment. In Neal Stephenson’s 1992 science-fiction novel Snow Crash, the […]