KRVS Après-Midi Interview
Judith Meriwether and Joseph N. Abraham, MD, discuss Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths on Après-Midi from KRVS, the Acadiana NPR affiliate
Tolerance
Intolerance vs Intolerance
I would enthusiastically support ‘Story Time by the LGBT+ Community.’ I do not support ‘Drag Queen Story Time.’ My concern is one of intolerance vs intolerance.
Dead, Dead, Dead: The Thanatocracy
Constitutional fundamentalists, like other fundamentalists, yield thought and free will in worship and submission to the dead authority of the thanatocracy, a system that is dead, dead, dead.
Ridiculing Neo-Nazis
Ridiculing neo-Nazis and other extremists is a powerful tool, but one that can also backfire badly. It is imperative that we offer carrots with the sticks.
Racism: Charlottesville
Racism is as old as humanity. But the word, and the concept, are quite recent.
Advice for New Parents
Advice for New Parents: ‘Read to your children’; how an ER doc became a primary care doc, and began changing the world.
War on Women, War on Children
The hard right has been waging a War on Women, and their freedoms. It appears they are also waging a War on Children, and their intellectual freedoms.
The Majority Illusion
The concept of majority rule is essential for democracy. The problem is, what we think is a majority is really a majority illusion.
Zero Tolerance for Education
Zero tolerance for rule-breaking, is zero tolerance for challenging the status quo.
Which is inseparable from intolerance for learning altogether.
Mental Dictators
Hitler wanted a master race, of ideal men and women, all of them strong, handsome, virtuous. He also wanted them to have ideal intellects, which is a problem. He wanted them to think, and to think his way. But if everyone thinks the same way…
…who’s thinking?