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Your Invitation to Join the Gold Watch Club

Secular Progress Posted on July 9, 2024 by FlywheelJuly 9, 2024
Joe Biden sitting while talking on the phone

The Gold Watch Club is a conversation regarding Joe Biden’s retirement as the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for President. This conversation is meant to be candid, timely, and prophetic. If the leaders of the Democratic Party squander this last chance … Continue reading →

Posted in American Exceptionalism, History | Tagged Joe Biden

Leaders That Gary Johnson Could Admire

Secular Progress Posted on November 1, 2016 by FlywheelOctober 1, 2023
JohnsonAndPutin

Imagine Gary Johnson had a second chance to answer the question, “What world leader do you admire?” Published at SecularProgress. com

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Posted in Diplomacy, History, Politics | Tagged Gary Johnson, Libertarian, Syria, Vladimir Putin

Big History Project Contest

Secular Progress Posted on August 8, 2015 by FlywheelAugust 8, 2015

I submitted a video to the “What Does it Mean to Human” contest sponsored by the Big History Project. Unfortunately, I didn’t make the cut for the top 25. That suprised me, because I thought had done a pretty good … Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged Abby Lammers, Big History, Circle of Compassion

Secular Progress on YouTube

Secular Progress Posted on January 9, 2014 by FlywheelJanuary 9, 2014

I had a surge of motivation sparked by a lot of serious reading over the last few months. I presented a talk on “Big Data in the Context of Big History” this past October at the General Semantics Conference in … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Interviews, Philosophy | Tagged Marshall McLuhan, Tom Wolfe

O’Reilly Vents Unbounded Hatred of Secular Progress

Secular Progress Posted on November 13, 2012 by FlywheelNovember 20, 2012

Bill O’Reilly’s rhetoric is reaching incendiary levels in the wake of Barack Obama’s reelection. “Traditionalism” might have won, O’Reilly argues, if Romney had organized his campaign in opposition to Secular Progress, defined for his critically astute viewers as a movement … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Politics, Truthiness

We the People

Secular Progress Posted on September 17, 2012 by FlywheelSeptember 17, 2012

The aspiration embodied in the statement “We the people” cast a long shadow in American and human history. William O. Douglas was very savvy in using the term “penumbras” to describe the extension of rights delineated in the Bill of … Continue reading →

Posted in American Exceptionalism, Freedom, History, Inclusive Morality, Interests

Occupying Wall Street vs Protesting Washington

Secular Progress Posted on November 5, 2011 by FlywheelNovember 5, 2011

“All of these people should be after Obama and Holder!” Beneath the bluster, on this one O’Reilly is asking a fair question, and certainly an important one. The gist of the question, sobered up, is this: Given that the Occupiers … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Interests, Politics

America is in decline because of lies like this.

Secular Progress Posted on October 25, 2011 by FlywheelOctober 25, 2011

I simply don’t have the time to keep up with all the twisted truths and outright lies that O’Reilly’s been spewing over the last few weeks. Tonight I had to react. While watching I simultaneously felt horror at his blatant … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Politics, Truthiness

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  • My Woke Take on Bandera: A Prescription for Peace in Ukraine
  • Putin’s Not the Problem
  • Leaders That Gary Johnson Could Admire
  • What Gary Johnson Should Have Said About Aleppo
  • Big Data in the Context of Big History
  • Purple Capitalism
  • Crooked Sky
  • Big History Project Contest
  • John Green knows what it means to be human
  • I’m not the Secular Progressive Reporter
  • Cracking the Nutshell on Free Will by Percent
  • Staying Awake to Anti-Islamic Bigotry
  • Daring Veritasium
  • What’s at Stake in the Information Debate
  • Chaos in Iraq: Andrew Bacevich with Bill Moyers
  • Ignorance in Prager University’s “Religion and Philosophy” Courses
  • Bill Maher vs Bill Kristol: Is the Tea Party Racist?
  • Secular Progress on YouTube
  • The Terry Deacon Dilemma
  • O’Reilly Vents Unbounded Hatred of Secular Progress
  • We the People
  • President Obama at Bat
  • Contemplating the Crackpot Caucus

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