Don's Review: Law, Politics, Science, Philosophy

Cutting-edge research and thoughts on all manner of topics each day escape the ivory tower and become more and more a subject of legal, political, social, and economic conversation in the general public. Often, they reach the water-cooler talks because they affect the debate over morals and practical living. Giant leaps forward in  science and laws may turn out to be the new bloody crossroads of U.S. politics where advances in human knowledge meet deeply entrenched differences about what makes life as we know or want it, and where the American creed of progress meets the common-sense admonition against human pride. Few people will argue that medicine should be or is all about interfering with nature's ways--by battling disease, restoring health, and dealing with the dark side of nature. In a 2001 poll, most Americans believed that embryonic stem cell research is morally wrong and, yet, medically necessary. The paradox of religiosity and pragmatism living side by side in the American character is plainly evident.

What We Do

In Don's Review we try to make the legalese and scientific mumbo-jumbo of the 21st century's frenetic advances, changes, and pace understandable to the general public. This means to the 8th-grade reader as well as the over-educated bagel-seller in midtown Manhattan.

This Web site, in part, is intended to focus on the legal changes wrought by the Bush-Cheney years and on Jared Diamond's "Collapse," which tells how societies have destroyed themselves in the past 3,000 years, especially in light of our climate problems and shrinking world. It also should focus on cutting-edge answers to the world's problems. the answers could be in such areas as the law, biochem, moral and developmental evolution, and physics research.

This is for the little ones (see above). Our future.

We invite: 

• Reader-authored poetry and short stories on our Arts & Culture page.
• Site-owner OK'd discussions in our blog.

Contents

NEW BLOG: Legal Issues, Decisions: 2d Circuit Aids eBay

Part 2: Verbal Abuse: Curse for the Ages

Education Is Not a 'Race'

'Age of Empathy': Seems Premature, I Don't See It

What Is This Thing Called Socialism?

SHORT STORY: 'White Skin'

U.S. Torture Acts, Laws Are Inexcusable, Racist

The Year of Living Joblessly

Part 2 of 'Die-Off' of Millions Is U.S. Plan to Keep Planet 'Livable' 

JFK Killed by Military-Industrial Complex?

Incisive's Gaffe-Filled NYLJ Deal

Many thanks!