Public Philosophy

This essay comes from the NPR series This I Believe, which features brief personal reflections from both famous and unknown Americans. The pieces that make up the series compel listeners to rethink not only what and how they have arrived at their beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others.

In this rambling essay, Bertrand Russell reflects on the future of the world while the memory of the First World War was still strong in the public imagination. Russell notes the concomitant development of technology and the rise of political autocracies and explores whether man can be considered fit to handle the vast new powers at his disposal.

This book examines two recent events that have apparently ended the conservative Reagan Revolution.

Listen to Secret to Success: The Evolution of Public Education & the Workforce, which was originally written in 2019, to learn about changes that were already happening or being done in public schools that cause problems in our everyday life as business owners, employers, job seekers, kids in school, and really everyone in some way or another.

Within the last few decades, several obesity-reducing low carbohydrate diets have come to the public's attention. What few realize is that these are all the grandchildren in thought to William Banting, an undertaker who, in 1864, wrote one short book that launched the first incredibly popular diet for obesity. Banting was immortalized by having his name enter the English language as a verb. Three examples include an Irishman, Captain Boycott, whose name entered the language in the 1860s.

Vinte anos após sua avó materna despedir-se precocemente desta Terra, vítima de um câncer, um de seus netos resolve abrir seu "álbum de memórias" e contar, em versos, um pouco da história de seu convívio com ela, dona Maria do Carmo. Uma perspectiva, também, sobre cultura, linguagem, costumes da época de Maria e seu lugar de origem, o Nordeste brasileiro.

Uma reflexão sobre o que nos amarra e motiva. Nada foi dito sobre qualquer criatura, não há respostas sobre a pane elétrica e de rádio, ninguém sabe nada sobre o comportamento das aves e muito menos o porquê um eclipse solar está durante tantas horas a trazer de volta a idade das trevas. E se na realidade não viram nada nas árvores? Se a histeria coletiva e pessoas de má fé aproveitaram-se do momento para aterrorizar a cidade? Talvez apenas o que faltava era uma oportunidade de as pessoas mostrarem quem realmente são.