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Truth, Justice, and the American Woke
Nerd Academy Dean Cain, who played the Man of Steel in the Nineties office rom-com Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman , has...

Scott Robinson
2 days ago5 min read
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How to Fix the World: Tailgating!
It's late October 2024, and I find myself in New England on a bright Sunday morning, in a vast parking lot next to Gillette Stadium,...

Scott Robinson
Mar 164 min read
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Righteous Minds
There is a generous bucket of concepts that, when grasped, explain damn near everything about human beings. We are naturally tribal -...

Scott Robinson
Mar 164 min read
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Kids on the Playground
The bully and his entourage summoned the smaller boy from the park, near the woods, onto the playground. His sidekick called out for the...

Scott Robinson
Mar 12 min read
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Status-faction
Ruy Teixeria, a political columnist writing in The Liberal Patriot , is the latest in a long line of commentators admonishing liberals...

Scott Robinson
Feb 85 min read
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The Reductive Electorate
Hopefully it has been made abundantly, painstakingly clear that this multidisciplinary exploration of authoritarian thought and behavior...

Scott Robinson
Sep 16, 20243 min read
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Thom Hartmann and the Ancient Way of Living
Author/political analyst Thom Hartmann concurs with the idea that democracy isn’t just one of many human social governance models sussed...

Scott Robinson
Sep 16, 20243 min read
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"Have more than one idea": Pluralist societies vs. Ideological regimes
A group of high school kids are visiting the West Wing when a precautionary lockdown occurs, due to a terrorism alert. The staff are used...

Scott Robinson
Jul 20, 20246 min read
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Time Travelin' Trek
Nitpicking the science – and, while we’re at it, the inconsistencies – of the sci-fi that we love is the fanboy’s great joy. And because...

Scott Robinson
Jul 20, 202415 min read
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The Root Cause Analysis of All EvilÂ
Money is the root of all evil, we are told, and that case is not hard to make. Almost any crime one person commits against another is...

Scott Robinson
May 18, 20244 min read
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Mitch McConnell's America
Much has been made of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s flip-floppy attitude toward Supreme Justice confirmations. When a Democrat...

Scott Robinson
May 18, 20244 min read
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The Paleo-Oligarchs
To add perspective to inequality as we experience it in the modern world, it might be useful to consider what our paleolithic ancestors...

Scott Robinson
May 11, 20242 min read
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Chairs
There has never been a time in the history of human civilization when the wealthy did not rule. Oligarchy – rule of the people by the...

Scott Robinson
May 11, 20243 min read
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A White Piano
The Kentucky Kernel was a powerful, even transformative experience for me. Two years as a staffer there set my course in life. Though I...

Scott Robinson
Apr 20, 20243 min read
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Pour Some Sugar on Steve
Def Leppard. The boys from Sheffield had experienced their meteoric rise during the years I was a young parent and still in the church –...

Scott Robinson
Apr 19, 20242 min read
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Big Generator (1987)
90125 had revived Yes from cold, grim death – not only keeping them alive, but supercharging with more energy and spectrum than they’d...

Scott Robinson
Apr 19, 20242 min read
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Hunting High and Low (1985)
This one, like Nik Kershaw and Mr. Mister, might baffle and even disappoint many of my musician friends. But in 1986, I was living alone...

Scott Robinson
Apr 19, 20242 min read
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My Car Seat Rocker
In 1982, I became a daddy with the birth of my son Steve. And a new phase of musical life began. I might quibble over my parents’...

Scott Robinson
Apr 19, 20242 min read
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Cereal Box Singles (1970)
Throughout the Sixties, I was growing up in Garden Springs, a suburb of west Lexington, Kentucky – in a church-music-only home. During...

Scott Robinson
Apr 18, 20242 min read
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Band of Brothers
Often have we put forth the premise that human beings are biologically predisposed to live in community – that we are social beings,...

Scott Robinson
Apr 15, 20245 min read
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