Do you know your trustworthiness score?  Did you know Facebook has given you one?  To avoid accusations they are purveyors of fake news,  the company now uses an algorithm to determine a member’s credibility.  Twitter, reportedly, is moving in the same direction.  (“Facebooks

In a blog entitled A Polemic (1/20/17), I wrote about an artist’s duty to comment upon events of the time.  In a similar vein, the editors of Harper’s devoted their February edition to “A Resister’s Guide”: 11 writers stop to consider the impact of Donald Trump’s 2017 pre

One defense people make for big government is that it serves as a counterweight to big business.  Unfortunately, the last tax-payer bailout of the automobile and bank industries gives little support to that argument.  What’s more, recent revelations in Luke Harding’s new book, T