On the very day that he was inaugurated, January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order ”Reevaluating and Realigning United States Foreign Aid,” that effectively cut billions of dollars of aid that had been earmarked for international humanitarian efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, malnutrition, and other afflictions around the world.  The order cut...Read More

In the movie L.A. Confidential there’s a scene where the Guy Pearce character (police officer Ed Exley) talks about his father who also was a cop who was killed by a suspect that was never found.  He tells the Kevin Spacey character (Jack Vincennes) that the man’s name wasn’t known, but that he gave him...Read More

I just produced this fifteen minute video/slide presentation which discusses my book Childless (about a childless child psychologist who tries to foil a U.S. government plot to remove childhood from the human genome) and how its darkly comedic satire is intended in part to raise awareness about how the institution of childhood is under attack...Read More

Over the past thirty years, I’ve sought to explain to educators and parents that each child is a natural genius, born with innate curiosity, creativity, playfulness, imagination, wonder, wisdom, and many other qualities besides.  As many great thinkers have pointed out, the challenge is not how to get our children to be creative or curious,...Read More

Yesterday I wrote in my blog about a new program being tested that provides young kids with wearable devices that track the number of words they hear or speak in the course of a day.  Today I want to write about another form of datafication, this time being used in our schools.  The Equal Opportunity...Read More