Would you like to know how many people have visited this page? Or how reputable the author is? Simply
sign up for a Advocate premium membership and you'll automatically see this data on every article. Plus a lot more, too.
I have 2 fans: Become a Fan. You'll get emails whenever I post articles on OpEd News
Kenneth E. Morris is a former professor, drummer, and cook who expatriated to Costa Rica after the reelection of George W. Bush. His most recent books are "On American Freedom: A Critique of the Country's Core Value with a Reformg Agenda" (Palgrave, 2014) and "Unfinished Revolution: Daniel Ortega and Nicaragua's Struggle for Liberation" (Chicago Review, 2010).
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 13, 2017 Thank You Alabama!
Let's all pause for a moment and give the good people of Alabama a huge thank you for doing the right thing.
(13 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 25, 2017 How Unequal Should US Incomes Be?
The debate over income inequality in the United States is dogged by an unanswered question: How unequal should incomes be? A ballpark answer to this question is sketched with the aid of the statistical concept of the standard deviation.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, February 27, 2017 Technology's False Claim to Fostering Democratic Free Speech
Ever since they were first marketed to the masses by freshly minted Silicon Valley millionaires, the internet and related technologies have been touted as augmentations of democratic free speech. The only problem with this claim is that it's wrong.
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 15, 2016 The Sense Mike Pence Makes on Tobacco Policy
A strong case can be made against the excessive regulation of tobacco products, which is at base the case Pence makes.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, October 24, 2016 America's Real Media Power Problem
The concentration of power in the media is really just a reflection of and response to the concentration of power in the United States itself.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 16, 2016 Backpage Bust Baloney
A defense of Backpage for providing a legitimate and legal public service, and criticism of law enforcement for misdirecting resources against it rather than targeting the real predators.