“How Venezuela Went From a Rich Nation of Immigrants to a Hungry Nation of Refugees,” by Daniel DiMartino on DailyWire.com
Despite all the evidence to the contrary, many perfectly intelligent people continue to believe that Socialism is the answer to wealth or income inequality. In this article, DiMartino explains what happened in Venezuela when, after the country became democratic in 1958, the people elected leaders who put the country on that path. LINK
The March issue of Independent Healing
Click here to read about:
* A breakthrough treatment for erectile disfunction
* The antidepressant side effect no one talks about
* Raising your thermostat to lower your blood pressure
* The best exercise to control your blood sugar (It’s not what you think.)
* Lithium supplements that stop Alzheimer’s
“Can Marriage Counseling Save America?” by Andrew Ferguson in The Atlantic
“There I was one bright summer Sunday,” Ferguson writes, “wreathed in skepticism, gathered with a dozen others in the community room of a suburban public library in Northern Virginia to test whether this nation or any nation so fragmented and so polarized, can be united and saved by a workshop….” Read the entire article here. LINK
“Why Do We Still Pick Up Dog Poop With Plastic Bags?” by Kate Bratskeir on HuffingtonPost.com
We know we should stop using plastic poop bags, but we just can’t. In this article, Bratskeir explains why. LINK
“Why Sanders Will Probably Win the Nomination” by David Brooks in the NYT
In this opinion piece, Brooks explains how Sanders and his fellow progressives have induced large parts of the Democratic Party to “see reality through the Bernie lens.” LINK
“What happens when you give up gluten, sugar and dairy?” from the Easy Health Options website LINK
This is good, basic advice about healthy eating. (No, I don’t always follow it myself – but if it weren’t for hypocrisy, I’d have no good advice to give.)
Add Jonathan Haidt to your list of contemporary nonfiction writers that know how to stay on top of topical subjects (Malcolm Gladwell, Michael Lewis, Stephen Dubner, et al.).
In this TED Talk – “The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives” – he introduces an idea that’s become very hot in the last year or two: that the differences between liberals, conservatives, and Libertarians have their basis in fundamental notions of morality. LINK
I have a lot to say on this subject. More to come in future essays…
The Dead by James Joyce
The Dead is considered to be one of Joyce’s most important and also most revealing works. It is a novella – more than a short story but less than a novel. Even if you’ve read it before, it’s always worth reading again.
The latest issue of AWAI’s Barefoot Writer
In the February issue:
* Recipe for an ‘A-Level’ Writing Career That Gets You Noticed, Makes You Wealthy, and Keeps You Happy
* 5 Ways Life Changes Can Revamp and Revive Your Writing
* The Secret Business Weapon of a White Paper Master
* 4 Ways to Bust Through Gargantuan Roadblocks
* $100 Writing Contest!
Metropolitan Life by Fran Lebowitz
A collection of smart and witty essays about life in the Big Apple as a young writer. Part Patti Smith. Part Sex and the City. She has this thing she does with lists…