Social Issues

Conspiracies Are The New Normal

Richard Gale & Gary Null, PhD Progressive Radio Network, November 9, 2022 No doubt, none of us can recall a time when the world at large has faced so many problems and crises that impinge upon the well-being and mortality of billions of people. The Covid-19 pandemic has taught us that for...

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The Covid-19 Pandemic in a Time of Moral and Spiritual Blackout

Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, October 23, 2021 In a recent opinion essay published on the pharmaceutical industry-friendly MedPage Today, Dr. Matthew Wynia, a medical ethics professor at the University of Colorado School of medicine, propagated an old trope by accusing doctors who advocate cheaper, effective drugs and...

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Racial Shaming and the Decline of Intellectual Honesty

Richard Gale and Gary Null, PhD Progressive Radio Network, September 10, 2021 To state that an unknown evolutionary principle for the survival of the fitness imbues us with a hardwired negative predisposition towards inherent racism is not only false but has enormous adverse repercussions to social order and personal well-being. It fuels...

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The Misanthropic Rants of a White Fragilist

Richard Gale & Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, July 13, 2021 The fury over racism that has been raging across the nation following the criminal, unnecessary deaths African American citizens by police and deranged White supremacists, is now becoming embedded in corporate boardrooms, legislative assemblies, school and university policymaking, and the...

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White Fragility’s Reality Deficit Disorder

Richard Gale & Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, July 14, 2021 Let us be clear. The recent rise in wokeness is another symptom of America’s “reality deficit disorder (RDD),” a condition that continues to proliferate across the American landscape since the Age of Enlightenment and the 19th century’s advent of scientific...

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The New America of Terror and Discontent

Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, January 15, 2021 For the vast majority of Americans, the past year has been the most challenging in their lives – certainly for young adults.  However, not everyone has been suffering equally. The nation’s health or illness is not uniform. Much of our suffering...

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Society’s Problems are Deeper than Bad Police

Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, June 15, 2020 Growing up in the small West Virginian city of Parkersburg was like living in peaceful times where everyone knew their neighbors. The police did not wear bullet proof vests, carry semi-automatic weapons and taser guns, or bring in armored vehicles when there were...

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The Woke Culture: A Pathology of Post-Modern Tribalism

Richard Gale and Gary Null PhD Progressive Radio Network, June 28, 2021 In a recent article, “Critical Race Theory [CRT] is Worse than Marxism, the social thinker and author, Prof. Paul Gottfried, breaks ranks from his Alt-Right compatriots to argue that CRT “has nothing to do with traditional Marxism.”  “The swear words “Marxist”...

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