The 2016 Rio Summer Olympics are having some issues. It came out today that the US Men’s and Women’s Olympic Basketball teams will be staying aboard the Silver Cloud cruise ship instead of the Olympic Village to combat…
A Poet, Linguist, and Graphic Designer Makes His Presidential Pick I could tell you that I’m voting for the Democratic ticket because I find their party’s platform superior to those of their Republican rivals.…
The first events take place August 5th! The Olympics in Rio this year will undoubtedly display some of the best athletic performances on this planet. In regards to peak performance, here are five things to keep an eye on before…
Pokemon Go brought augmented reality (AR) to mainstream this past week and, well, it’s been interesting. We’ve seen people trespassing and driving cars dangerously slow around neighborhoods just to get that one Pokemon lying over in the weeds.…
A Cure for What Ails Us? If you are looking for a way of understanding the political party conventions of July and the fall campaign season, one could do worse than read Yuval Levin’s…
Malcolm Berko asserted that Economics was a useless profession in his recent column piece “Economists Stink.” As an Economics department chair and professor for forty-nine years I feel qualified to respond to Mr. Berko’s allegation.…
There is no way, in a brief blog, that I can do justice to breaking open the Black Lives Matter movement. I do not believe I can be a voice FOR those leading the Black…
WHAT THE EUROPEAN CUP CAN TELL US ABOUT DEGLOBALIZATION In the days following the victory of the Leave advocates in the British referendum on its membership in the EU, the quarterfinal games of the…
I am a senior in high school and across the lake that abuts Hobart High the water tower stands tall. The football quarterback’s name written in gold and blue (school colors) glares in the sunlight…
In a national referendum on June 23rd, the U.K. citizens voted to leave the European Union; 52% voted to leave, 48% to stay. The E.U. is a political and economic union among 28 European countries…