My Most Popular Blog Article
By N.S. Palmer, Ph.D. It’s interesting that my most popular blog article is not about Obama, Bush, politics, science, economics, or philosophy. It’s about newspapers: “Why Subscribe to a Print Newspaper?” I wrote that article in March of 2009 and it still gets from five to 25 views a day. Quite a few people are still interested in newspapers.  Because I think newspapers are important, that gives me hope for the future. Copyright 2009 by N.S. Palmer. May be reproduced as long

“Don’t Know Much About History …”
By N.S. Palmer, Ph.D. “Don’t know much about history” is more than just a song lyric. It amounts to the credo of a significant minority of Americans. Their most obvious manifestation is their adulation of erstwhile Alaska governor Sarah Palin of the Opportunist Party. That such a drooling imbecile would be considered a credible candidate for any political office by anyone of any party speaks volumes about the future of t

Lobbyists and Vampires and Atheists, Oh My!
By N.S. Palmer, Ph.D. Readers of a good newspaper seldom have any shortage of blog topics. Quite the contrary: the question becomes how many of the day’s topics there is time to cover. Of course, good newspapers are few these days. In the United States, there are The New York Times and the McClatchy newspapers. The Wall Street Journal’s news pages are still pretty good, even if its editorial pages have gone the way of Fox News. Most other remaining newsp