Scott Robinson
The Reductive Electorate
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Scott Robinson
Sep 163 min read
Thom Hartmann and the Ancient Way of Living
Author/political analyst Thom Hartmann concurs with the idea that democracy isn’t just one of many human social governance models sussed...
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Scott Robinson
May 184 min read
The Root Cause Analysis of All Evil
Money is the root of all evil, we are told, and that case is not hard to make. Almost any crime one person commits against another is...
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Scott Robinson
May 184 min read
Mitch McConnell's America
Much has been made of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s flip-floppy attitude toward Supreme Justice confirmations. When a Democrat...
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Scott Robinson
Apr 155 min read
Band of Brothers
Often have we put forth the premise that human beings are biologically predisposed to live in community – that we are social beings,...
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Scott Robinson
Mar 146 min read
Hearts and Minds: The End of the Witness
When I was young, growing up in a Fundamentalist/Evangelical household, I was very explicitly indoctrinated into the faith from birth....
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Scott Robinson
Feb 247 min read
Things Hoped For, Things Not Seen
I’m originally from Kentucky, though these days I live just across the river in Indiana, and I am still sufficiently bound to the...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 232 min read
Fear of Quicksand
Through many of my childhood years, a deep dread lurked in the back of my brain, prompted by Saturday afternoon movies and an assortment...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 222 min read
My Couch Pillow Fort: Or, the Importance of Avoiding Hot Lava
Surrounded by hissing Gorn on the horizon, we huddled behind the thermocrete battlements, phasers and photon grenades at the ready as the...
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Scott Robinson
Feb 195 min read
A Tale of Two Franchises
Star Wars, Star Trek, and Macroeconomic Theory Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel, in a conversation with New York...
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Scott Robinson
Dec 17, 20237 min read
The Beggar's Infant
Dr. Tony Campolo has made a side career of speaking to multinational corporations, urging them to Do the Right Thing. And he puts...
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Scott Robinson
Dec 17, 20232 min read
The New Nationalism
Dr. Tony Campolo’s warning – that the Moral Majority would form an alliance with the political far Right and attempt to get a...
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Scott Robinson
Dec 17, 20232 min read
Partisanism
Partisanism is a binge of subjective gluttony. It clusters together those who already agree, absolving them of the rigors of validation,...
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Scott Robinson
Nov 11, 20235 min read
Clusters
Homo sapiens is the most social of species. Not only do we not live in isolation, as so many creatures of the earth do, we fine-tune our...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 22, 20234 min read
Reaganism
In 1981, I was in the second year of my first round of college, and I worked for the campus newspaper. That was a bigger deal than it...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 22, 20238 min read
The House That Newt Built
At this writing – in October 2023 – the US House of Representatives is without a Speaker. This situation was realized in the course of an...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 22, 20236 min read
Minority Rule
A recent event in Ohio underscores a key feature of the growing conflict in the West today, as democracy struggles to push back against...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 22, 20238 min read
The Missing Factor
Maj. Chet Kinsman of the US Aerospace Force is aboard a space station, chatting with industrialist Ted Dreyer, whose tech corporation has...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 11, 20232 min read
The New Conservatives
[Written in 1984, lost, and recently rediscovered. This attempt at a humor column reads pretty dated now; the concept of conservatism it...
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Scott Robinson
Oct 11, 20233 min read
Gunga Din in Schools
[Written in 1984, lost, and recently rediscovered] WASHINGTON – The following is a partial transcript of an impromptu press conference...
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