Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals, the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. Those who radically altered history, the great creative scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned if at all. Martin Gardner, mathematician and writer (1914-2010) […]
Canadian Public Policy on Energy and Emissions
Robert Hoffman, past Chair CACOR Board of Directors, considers Canadian Public Policy on Energy and Emissions It is evident that there has been a failure of public policy in Canada with respect to energy and climate change. The need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid catastrophic global warming was recognized and accepted […]
Responding to the global crisis of tribalism and democratic decay
If You don’t like it Leave! My way or the Highway. Get yours now . Make piracy great again. Win at all costs and keep the spoils. Maybe other ethics should be considered and how to define and sustain social justice. The following article contributes to the dialogue on solutions. This article is part of […]
Collective psychiatry
Chinese psychiatry remains committed to the political ideal of mental hygiene, long after its discrediting in the West Mental Hygiene, Cultural Hygiene, and Social Credit. The enduring appeal of mental hygiene in China, then, can be attributed to the way it satisfies the ongoing political desire for conformity and control. Just like the Nationalists before […]
PPPPs for Climate Change
Co-authored with Dror Etzion and Saku Mantere; adapted from “Wordly Strategy for the Global Climate” in the Stanford Social Innovation Review (Fall 2018). Does this consolidation scenario sound utopian? Not when seen in the cooperative activities across the three sectors in Denmark, which has become an exemplary model of shifting to alternate forms of energy. […]