Scott Robinson
The Reductive Electorate
Hopefully it has been made abundantly, painstakingly clear that this multidisciplinary exploration of authoritarian thought and behavior...
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Scott Robinson
Sep 163 min
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...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 206 min
"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...
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Scott Robinson
Jul 2015 min
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...
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Scott Robinson
May 184 min
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...
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Scott Robinson
May 184 min
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...
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Scott Robinson
May 112 min
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...
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Scott Robinson
May 113 min
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...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 203 min
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...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 192 min
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 –...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 192 min
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...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 192 min
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...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 192 min
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’...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 182 min
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...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 155 min
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,...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 1310 min
Famous Fake Bands
Every now and then, you’ll hear a magnificent song you’ve never heard before – on the radio, maybe, or in a friend’s car – and be blown...
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Scott Robinson
Mar 1627 min
Medallion
I As far back as his memory went, Arlan Mynx had longed to rule the world. In grade school, this longing manifested in a dramatic...
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Scott Robinson
Mar 1412 min
Asimov's Manifesto: Prescience for the Human in the Machine
Among the many bequests of Isaac Asimov to the human conversation was his take on the robot – its nature and role. Emerging in science...
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Scott Robinson
Mar 146 min
Hearts and Minds: The End of the Witness
When I was young, growing up in a Fundamentalist/Evangelical household, I was very explicitly indoctrinated into the faith from birth....
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Scott Robinson
Mar 1023 min
Skeleton 17
I The Dyje River rivaled the sky for blue as the helicopter swept out over an open field a mile or so east of DolnàVÄ•stonice. Its...
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