outlookandinsight

Better policing may someday make it into the “Big Ideas” section of this blog, but I have not yet given it enough study and thought. For now, here are some ideas and links. This video from the Institute for Humane Studies argues for a return to community policing, where the citizens know the officers and […]

I haven’t been able to find the interview, but sometime in the first decade of the current century I watched a talking head on TV ask President Bush if homosexuality was a choice. At that time our popular information media, misunderstanding the science as they usually do, were pushing the narrative that homosexuality was genetically

The Outlook and Insight Education Plan is up in the Big Ideas section of this blog. The plan proposes to increase innovation in K-12 education by reducing regulations and allowing public school districts to compete for students.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and

“Science” seems to be the new god. All sides of the U.S. political spectrum claim “science” to be on their side, very much as partisans of days-gone announced that God supported—or perhaps demanded—their policy preferences. What are they talking about? One can look up countless works about both the philosophy of science and the nature

When we think of evolution, we usually think in terms of biology. We think of the accumulated biological differences that accrue to a species through a series of generations. This is sometimes characterized as a competition between individuals wherein the winners pass on their superior genes to subsequent generations and the losers become archaeological curiosities.

sex (seks), n. 1. either the male or female division of a species, esp. as differentiated with reference to the reproductive functions. 2. the sum of the structural and functional differences by which the male and female are distinguished, or the phenomena of behavior dependent upon these differences. 3. the instinct or attraction drawing one

I just read an article in Discourse, the new online magazine from Mercatus Center, in which the author recalls her childhood in Taiwan under the Kuomintang one-party rule. The Kuomintang, also called the Chinese Nationalist Party, exercised one-party rule over the the island of Taiwan for 40 years, from 1949 to 1989, and still holds

This informative article by science-writer, Nicholas Wade, on Medium evaluates the different possible scenarios for how the COVID-19 virus might have been transmitted from bats into humans. Origin of Covid — Following the CluesDid people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?Nicholas Wade