by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 23, 2020 | • Politics
We Are All Aboard the Pequod – PopularResistance.Org The most prescient portrait of the American character and our ultimate fate as a species is found in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.” Melville makes our murderous obsessions, our hubris,...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 23, 2020 | Coronavirus, Science
Why do some COVID-19 patients infect many others, whereas most don’t spread the virus at all? s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center. When 61 people met for a choir practice in a church in Mount Vernon, Washington, on 10 March, everything...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 20, 2020 | Coronavirus, Critical Thinking
We have become a nation of magical thinkers, making decisions based on what we hope is the case and whom we want to believe. When confronted with opposing evidence, we do not engage with it. We dismiss it and stick a label on it: “fake,” “phony,” “biased,” etc. And...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 19, 2020 | • Politics
A really smart young journalist Nathan J. Robinson (@NathanJRobinson), a columnist for The Guardian US, and Editor-in-Chief of Current Affairs magazine, wrote a book entitled Why You Should Be a Socialist that was published back on December 10th, 2019. More recently...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 18, 2020 | Coronavirus, Critical Thinking, Science
Trump is on record saying he’s seen evidence virus started in Chinese lab and Pompeo has echoed Trump although when pressed on the question he has indicated he hadn’t seen definitive evidence. The idea that the virus was engineered in a lab by the Chinese...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 14, 2020 | • Politics, Economics & The Economy, Income Inequality, Jobs
The neoliberal era is ending. What comes next? In a crisis, what was once unthinkable can suddenly become inevitable. We’re in the middle of the biggest societal shakeup since the second world war. And neoliberalism is gasping its last breath. So from higher...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 13, 2020 | Coronavirus, Donald Trump, Science, Science Based Medicine
He Was a Science Star. Then He Promoted a Questionable Cure for Covid-19. Feature The man behind Trump’s favorite unproven treatment has made a great career assailing orthodoxy. His claim of a 100 percent cure rate shocked scientists around the world. Didier...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 13, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, The 2020 Presidential Race
How Trump lost his Electoral College edge to Biden The idea that President Trump possesses an enormous Electoral College advantage in November’s election has become an article of faith among thinkers across the political...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 12, 2020 | Coronavirus
Experts Knew a Pandemic Was Coming. Here’s What They’re Worried About Next. You might feel blindsided by the coronavirus, butwarnings about a looming pandemic have been there for decades. Government briefings, science journals and even popular fiction...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 11, 2020 | Coronavirus
Doctors keep discovering new ways the coronavirus attacks the body Deborah Coughlin was neither short of breath nor coughing. In those first days after she contracted the novel coronavirus, her fever never spiked above 100 degrees. It was vomiting and diarrhea that...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 10, 2020 | Coronavirus, Critical Thinking
If Someone Shares the ‘Plandemic’ Video, How Should You Respond? Whatever camp someone falls in, though, the general principles are the same. “It’s always important to respond in a way that doesn’t suggest that the other [person] is...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 9, 2020 | • Politics, Donald Trump
We probably all know of and know some of the deplorables that video journalist Jordan Klepper exposes on The Daily Show and on YouTube (Jordan Klepper vs. Trump Supporters | The Daily Show – YouTube). We know there is zero chance of that the cohort of...
