A hostile DrHurd.com reader recently objected to my statement, “Remember that the Internet as we know it did not come about because of a government directive or a National Technology Board who decided it would be so.” The reader went … Continue reading
A DrHurd.com reader writes: In a recent Facebook rant, a friend used the phrase “please fix yourself”’ This is a rich, short statement. Should we be looking to fix ourselves; adjusting our values, virtues, and morality; our perceived flaws? Or, … Continue reading
The author of a book called Against Love: A Polemic by Laura Kipnis blames contemporary problems with marriage on—surprise, surprise!—capitalism. Rolling out the intellectuals’ same old stale argument for more than a century now, Kipnis tries to persuade her readers … Continue reading
According to both 2006 and 2009 studies published by Raymond Mar, a psychologist at York University in Canada, and Keith Oatley, a professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Toronto, those who read fiction are capable of the most … Continue reading
A DrHurd.com reader comments: There’s a big difference between unconditional love and unconditional approval. That seems to be lost in much of the discussion surrounding our feelings about or toward others these days. Many people falsely believe that if they … Continue reading
Republicans and Democrats continue to fight over immigration. It has little to do with principle, and plenty to do with posturing and camera preening for the sake of their victims — or rather, their constituents. Here’s a question rarely considered, … Continue reading
The Obamacare employer mandate has become a political quagmire for many liberals, who are starting to agree that penalizing business for refusing to offer health insurance is a part of the president’s healthcare reform plan that should be abandoned. “The … Continue reading
Thousands of Costco shoppers are taking to the wholesaler’s Facebook page and threatening to drop their Costco memberships after the retailer pulled copies of Dinesh D’Souza’s newest anti-Obama book from its shelves, but a company official insists the decision was … Continue reading
How do you feel about being left alone with yourself, and your thoughts? Before answering, consider the findings in a recent University of Virginia/Harvard University study [reported at pjmedia.com 7/4/14]: Many people would rather inflict pain on themselves than spend … Continue reading
In order to establish a dictatorship, a government needs two things. One, the moral sanction of a people (and their intellectuals) to permit it; and two, the practical tools to implement it. We’re not quite there with the moral sanction. … Continue reading
“From the day we begin caring for the children in our lives, we are preparing them to leave. It’s the most difficult thing to face– a grand abandonment of our own devising.” — Suzie Bright
From time to time I am asked to address or write about hypocrisy. Recently a DrHurd.com reader asked if hypocrisy is the chasm between our professed ideals and our actions. He went on to suggest that a person without hypocrisy … Continue reading