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Author: cladwig
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The Outstater
Criminology for the Clueless WE LOST INTEREST in the gun-control debate a couple of decades ago when one side began piling up incontrovertible data that crime was not the fault of inanimate objects but rather of a society that left fatherless young men aimlessly roaming the streets at night. The pile is about to my waist…
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Franke: Dumbing Down by Knowing Too Much
by Mark Frank Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? “The Rock” by T. S. Elliot We live in an age of sensory overload. We are tied to gadgets that bombard us with snippets of information which are simply endless data points that never…
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McGowan: One-Way Environmentalists
by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. My friend, a professor of architecture and design, was a member of his small, Ohio town’s planning council. The council tackled the problem of energy loss by the town’s drafty domiciles, especially trailers. The committee wondered what to do about it. “We should tear them down and replace them with more…