From Nebraska: Following Park Rules

From Nebraska

Following Park Rules: Ignorance is No Longer an Excuse for Smart Phone Owners


Freedom Spent

When I was in college, a professor suggested that I read Freedom Spent by the legal writer Richard Harris. Freedom Spent was a narrative of three case studies in which Americans lost their civil liberties during legal proceedings that adhered to the letter of the law, or abided by a strict constructionist (narrow) interpretation of the law that disregarded the...


Ego Is the Enemy – Ryan Holiday

PR for People® Reviews: By Barbara Lloyd McMichael Ego Is the Enemy – Ryan Holiday


Jumping Around | George Wallace, Morgan Freeman, D.C. Benny, Jessimae Peluso

THIS COLUMN ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON theinterrobang.com

I popped in at New York Comedy Club to catch Paul Virzi running his set, at one of those quarterly shows they’re doing where comics get the opportunity to...


Liberal, Conservative, Reactionary (A Tutorial)

So, the labels “Liberal,” “Conservative,” and “Reactionary” are regularly  bandied about and employed like edged weapons.  There seems to be no stronger epithet these days, one of these labels in the hands of an adversary.  But, let’s spend a moment examining each of them.

A Liberal, according to Webster, is someone open to new behaviors or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.

A...


Is Indigenous Wisdom the Way Forward?

Indigenous wisdom inspires activist Winona LaDuke and her filmmaker Keri Pickett.


Break the Law

As much as Americans uphold the law, there is a pervading distrust of any law. At the heart of American culture, our democratic values enable us all to voice a healthy skepticism of law, social order, and the government. It is part of our enduring American legacy to question authority. Despite a penchant for authority, it is still a fundamental drive in every American to want to break the law.


Protester Arrests: 2007-17

Civil disobedience has been practiced by peaceful protesters long before Henry Thoreau penned the essay with this name after a night in jail for refusing to pay the poll tax. In the US, when protester arrests are mentioned, Rosa Parks’ and Dr. Martin Luther King’s bus protest comes to mind together with an understanding of its roots in the Indian independence movement, led by Mahatma Gandhi. In the last decade, there has been a spike in...