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The Electoral College is a Broken System
Evanston RoundTable, March 7, 2019 Five times in our nation’s history, including twice in the last generation, the will of the people has been subverted by a process that is
Zeno’s Plank
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 21, 2019 When I exercise doing planks, I pick out 60 seconds on the clock and start counting to myself. When I pass five seconds, I note
Attention Must Be Paid
Evanston RoundTable, Feb. 7, 2019 There’s a famous video on YouTube—blandly titled “Selective Attention Test”—of six college students passing basketballs to each other. Viewers are instructed to count the number
How to Survive a Plane Crash
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 24, 2019 Almost 2 million Americans take to the skies every day. Flying is fast, efficient and safe, far safer than driving, as we are constantly assured.
‘Green Book’ movie review
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 10, 2019 There are two ways to come at “Green Book,” the new biopic about Don Shirley, the renowned African American pianist and composer who died in
Lessons in Luck
Evanston RoundTable, Jan. 10, 2019 Luck is usually considered to be random, inconstant and, well…lucky, something other people seem to have more of. “Success or failure,” the dictionary says, “apparently
Pascal’s Wager Applied to Love
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 27, 2018 What if we could decide that betting on love is a good bet, a wager worth making? The 17th century French philosopher and mathematician Blaise
When Lenny Met Victor
Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 13, 2018 In this centenary year of Leonard Bernstein’s birth, we rightly celebrate his genius as a conductor, composer, educator and pianist. But no less important was
If You Love Movies, Take the Challenge!
“Movies are the most important artistic medium of the last century, where we learn how to love, fight, live and die.” Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 27, 2018 A month ago I