Is Cancel Culture Just a Zero-Sum Game?
“O! Beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.” – William Shakespeare, Othello...
top of page
A Weekly email Encouraging Human Progress Through Reason, Faith, Humor, and History.
NEWSLETTER
Search
Ron Baron
Jul 24, 20214 min read
Feral Hogs Next Poster Child of Climate Alarmist
Having broken free from bondage, these critters are tearing up the world and contributing to our destruction according to the climate...
Ron Baron
Jun 18, 202110 min read
The Future- If You Dare
Remote control toilets and doorbells with facial recognition. Be afraid. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past...
Ron Baron
May 29, 202123 min read
What Humpty Dumpty Can Teach us About Climate Alarmism
How 'Settled' science nearly succeeded in destroying mother nature's most perfect food. "I have high cholesterol," my mother sighed over...
Ron Baron
May 26, 20212 min read
Eating Ourselves
How we fund the means of our dysfunction “If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or...
Ron Baron
May 21, 20215 min read
Modern Church Ladies
The Judgmentalist are everywhere. Back in 1986, some lowly Saturday Night Live costume courtier was asked to procure a laughably modest...
Ron Baron
Apr 27, 20211 min read
Why I Read John McWhorter
Mr. McWhorter is a very curious man. He is highly educated, a serious thinker, a gifted writer, and today he finds himself fascinated if...
Ron Baron
Apr 24, 202110 min read
The Year is 2039- Where's the Beef?
In my last email, I hinted at sharing a novel I'm writing. It's not uncommon today to 'serialize' one's writing and offer it over...
Ron Baron
Apr 22, 20212 min read
Rule of Mob
With the word 'justice' in nearly every paragraph, its meaning, at least in an authoritative dictionary sense, appears under constant...
Ron Baron
Apr 18, 20211 min read
When Taught What to Think
It is interesting to watch smart people ponder. Temples pulsate as the insufferably curious consider each big question. Some questions...
Ron Baron
Apr 9, 20211 min read
Believers and Enablers
Vanity Fair writer, Peter Savodnik, sees an interesting parallel between hunting for witches in the village of Salem, Massachusetts, and...
Ron Baron
Mar 31, 20211 min read
How Will Coyotes Howl Without Sheet Music?
Perhaps the spring winds have stirred microbes or distributed evaporated sun-dried neurotransmitter remnants and have resulted in a 'new'...
Ron Baron
Mar 18, 20211 min read
The Mask: Nanometers vs. Millimeters
If wearing a mask has provided you with security and confidence and reading something that questions those assumptions will make you...
Ron Baron
Mar 14, 20211 min read
Fear of Retaliation, Students Remain Quiet
Most parents remain quiet for the same reason. But now, gingerly and with great trepidation, a few parents are beginning to ask...
Ron Baron
Mar 4, 20214 min read
First Shall Be Last, and the Last Shall be First
There are millions of us boomers. Unlike newborns who are mostly sleeping, smooth, healthy, and nary a care in the world, we suffer from...
Ron Baron
Feb 25, 20211 min read
The Elect: Woke Theology
It must have become uncomfortable. Finally, she blurted, "It's what I believe and that's all I'm going to say!" She may have grown...
Ron Baron
Feb 23, 20211 min read
The History of Forced Apologies
As children, we all remember when a sibling or friend demanded we apologize for a misdeed. If not, off to mother they waddle. Apologize...
Ron Baron
Feb 18, 20214 min read
The Tolerant Eyes of Helen Keller
It was Shakespeare who wrote, “The eyes are the window to your soul.” His use of ‘soul’ suggests a spiritual man. Historians mostly...
Ron Baron
Feb 17, 20211 min read
Real Scientist Are Provoked by Boundless Curiosity
'Even Pontius Pilate claimed to be motivated by the truth' observes Lord Christopher Monckton of Brenchley. And so too academia. But...
Ron Baron
Feb 12, 20215 min read
The 2020 Olympics: The Most Gender Diverse Games Ever
You must have noticed- the 2020 Summer Olympics games were canceled and rescheduled. A victim to the pandemic, the games are now to be...
bottom of page