The world is a dangerous place to live not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it. ~ Albert Einstein Einstein’s aphorism above in an utterly singular manner extrapolates why professor Allan Bloom had to write his magnum opus, “The Closing of the American Mind,” […]
For Bloom, the moral vacuum created by liberalism inside the souls of Americans was filled by demagogic radicals in the ’60s similar to the Nazi Brownshirts who in the ’20s and ’30s filled the breach created in German society by the Weimar Republic. Bloom further argued that liberal values of philosophy and reason understood as […]
The Keep Nine Amendment: A Permanent Solution to Threats of Court-Packing
“I think that was a bad idea when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court. If anything would make the court appear more partisan, it would be that. So, I am not at all in favor of that solution. Nine seems to be a good number. It’s been that way for a […]
Book Review: The Innovative Efficiency and Competitive Dynamism of Biotechnology
Successful biotech entrepreneurs recount how a favorable corporate-pharma ecosystem facilitated pathbreaking research that introduced novel medicines “This book will be a useful resource for management students and scholars, biomedical scientists, venture capitalists, and other investors, entrepreneurs, healthcare policymakers, and all others interested in how new medicines come into being, why the process is so […]
Symposium—Narrative of a World War I Jewish Lawyer finding Jesus Christ the Real Messiah
Socrates (470-399 B.C.) was a famous Greek philosopher from Athens who taught Plato, and Plato taught Aristotle, and Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Socrates created the concept of convening a “Symposium” for his students as a modus operandi for developing a simple but cleverly profound method of teaching by asking penetrating, revelatory, and psychologically probing […]
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