by Steven J. Manning | May 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
With due humility, I know more about the most enduring social pathology in history, antisemitism, and about the Holocaust than most. Not as much as some. And, incomparably uninformed compared to some legitimate scholars who have invested significant shares of their...
by Steven J. Manning | April 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
I faced this keyboard – still dark coast to coast – with some concern. Just some because of admitted arrogance as a writer of often provocative stuff. Would I be able to relate coherently what was buzzing about in my mind. Not-torturously. Rather, fun and...
by Steven J. Manning | April 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Early January, 2020, I got a Happy New Year email from an acquaintance in Milano. He, a well-known orthopedic surgeon and university professor. “Happy New Year, Stefano, and to your family. Have you heard, are you hearing about our new Chinese virus, exploding in...
by Steven J. Manning | March 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Some experts and talking heads of all kinds, write, talk about, lecture, teach, wax philosophical, sell millions of CDs, about success. They urge everybody who listen, watch and read them, that would be many millions of people, to spend their money and follow their...
by Steven J. Manning | March 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
The enormity of the holocaust, the most grotesque exhibit of perversity of mankind the boundless inhumanity of people. Fascism and ultimately Hitler, rose from the ashes of Germany’s total devastation and even more importantly humiliation after World War I. The...
by Steven J. Manning | March 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Holocaust has been on my mind, well, it is often. With Ukraine having been set ablaze by Putin—a legitimate 20th and 21st centuries competitor to Stalin, Mao and Hitler—my mind has been preoccupied a lot with it, perhaps accounting for some loss of sleep and...
by Steven J. Manning | February 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
From: The Big Man In The Khaki Shirt And Riding Boots With His Arm Up A Cow’s “Thing” Then he started sweating and swearing. The man could keep a fierce string of swear words, sentences, phrases, paragraphs going for an hour. And he could do that in at least...
by Steven J. Manning | February 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
A brief rant on P.C. and its oft traveling companion, our culture of apology, and on situational ethics. Political correctness is a particularly insidious and ravenous cancer of the intellect. It has done more harm to all aspects of our society and our lives than any...
by Steven J. Manning | February 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
Success defies a universal definition. It is a complex paradigm. It is always defined both qualitatively and quantitatively. It is unique to individuals, people, groups of people, and populations. Regrettably, success or lack of it, is often dictated by necessity...