A great sport, minus the sweating. As a young boy I remember going to the park off Jerome Avenue on Sunday afternoons in the post war Bronx, to play baseball or basket ball or ring-a-levio, with my...

Are men and women wired differently? Men and women are different — not an earth-shattering revelation. Not that one is better than the other, just different. The male brain is about 10% larger...

October 12, 1921  On this day in 1921, the League of Nations achieved its first major peaceful settlement, of the Upper Silesia dispute. A banner day for intelligence overcoming brute force. The...

Gender-driven differences can seem paradoxical Men and women have unique perspectives, meaning they see the world and interpret situations differently, sometimes from opposite directions. We all know...

Living with Anti-Semitism  Reading it in black and white might make you shake your head and wonder, but being a part of it is an entirely different story.   In 2017 there were 7,175 Bias or Hate...

A useful prop for bad legal reform From time to time, we hear about a frivolous lawsuit, one that has no merit and is so absurd as to have little chance of prevailing. Such lawsuits are often filed...

Signing away your protection. Many of the contracts we sign nowadays have a mandatory arbitration clause, and that includes those used for employment, insurance, home-building, car loans and leases...

An ancient tribal art is today’s form of self-expression When we Boomers were kids, if you had a tattoo it meant you were a tough guy, a sailor or a side show freak. Today every blonde teenage...

That’s a burning legal question. Let me begin by saying I am for the legalization of Marijuana. I am for both the legalization of medical and recreational marijuana. I find it simply...

The ancient Zen question. Of course, as with many questions there are often more than one answer.  All of these multiple answers give way to the science  of Philosophy.   To avoid boring myself...