by Todd Galitz | May 23, 2023 | Income Inequality, Political Economy, Spotlight
The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence There has been a lot of hype about Artificial Intelligence lately, perhaps too much. But if you want to understand the bigger picture in a non-technical political-economic framework, this...
by Todd Galitz | Jun 28, 2021 | Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Political Science, John Locke
The Political Thought of John Locke-An Historical Account of the Argument of the ‘Two Treatises of Government’ by John Dunn. Cambridge at the University Press, 1969. 521 07408 8 The Political Thought of John Locke could have been called “My...
by Todd Galitz | Aug 26, 2020 | For Free, Science Fiction
PBS is making it’s documentary, The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin free to watch through 8/30/20! Ursula K. Le Guin was a trailblazer writing about complex and interesting societies, her stories reflected the deepest questions that mainstream society has only...
by Todd Galitz | Jul 16, 2020 | Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Literature, Horror
A Review of “American Gothic Literature” Ruth Bienstock Anolik, 2019, McFarland & Company Inc. 306 pages Like the genre it examines, this work is insightful, inspiring, exhilarating, and challenging. However, it is not for the faint of heart! A somewhat...
by Todd Galitz | Jun 9, 2020 | Event, Justice
Via #Shutdownstem On June 10, 2020, we will #ShutDownAcademia, #ShutDownSTEM, and #Strike4BlackLives. In the wake of the most recent murders of Black people in the US, it is clear that white and other non-Black people have to step up and do the work to eradicate...