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Derek Cressman

Fed Up with Runaway Campaign Spending, 86% of Maine Voters Back Constitutional Amendment to…

After facing hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign spending from corporations aimed at influencing elections, Maine voters…

Nov 9, 2023

Fed Up with Runaway Campaign Spending, 86% of Maine Voters Back Constitutional Amendment to…

Nov 9, 2023

Derek Cressman

Review of Paved Paradise — How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar

Jul 16, 2023

Jul 16, 2023

Derek Cressman

Let’s Talk About Sheep, Meat, and Climate Change

After spending roughly three decades of my life as either a strict vegetarian, pescatarian, and even a year or so as a vegan, I’ve now…

Jun 19, 2023

Let’s Talk About Sheep, Meat, and Climate Change

Jun 19, 2023

Derek Cressman

George Santos, Performance Artist

The congressman from New York elected under the name George Santos never worked on Wall Street, never graduated from college, and was never…

Jan 23, 2023

George Santos, Performance Artist

Jan 23, 2023

Derek Cressman

Twitter’s Biggest Problem Isn’t Elon Musk — It’s Advertising

Yes, Elon Musk is an arrogant, petulant billionaire who might just run twitter into the ground. Yes, there are serious concerns with how…

Dec 16, 2022

Twitter’s Biggest Problem Isn’t Elon Musk — It’s Advertising

Dec 16, 2022

Derek Cressman

I was happy to vote in California’s Recall

I know that many fellow Californians feel the attempted recall of Governor Gavin Newsom is a waste of time and money, but I was happy to…

Sep 3, 2021

I was happy to vote in California’s Recall

Sep 3, 2021

Derek Cressman

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics — a Belated Review

I picked up a copy of Nicomachean Ethics recently, while waiting for family members to slowly peruse a museum giftshop. It seemed like a…

Jun 25, 2019

Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics — a Belated Review

Jun 25, 2019

Derek Cressman

“It Can’t Happen Here,” — Until it Does A Review of the novel by Sinclair Lewis

In the 1935 political novel It Can’t Happen Here, author Sinclair Lewis paints a frightening realistic picture of how authoritarianism…

Jun 11, 2019

“It Can’t Happen Here,” — Until it Does
A Review of the novel by Sinclair Lewis

Jun 11, 2019

Derek Cressman

Review of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged

An entertaining but twisted re-brand of social Darwinism

Dec 18, 2018

Review of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged

Dec 18, 2018

Derek Cressman

Recovering from, and preventing, frozen shoulder

When I was 49 years old, my right shoulder froze. I could not raise my arm higher than my head and learned to shampoo and comb my hair with…

Sep 17, 2018

Sep 17, 2018

Derek Cressman

Derek Cressman

Hell bent on overturning Citizens United. $$≠free speech. Author, advocate, dad, husband, and very amateur banjo player.

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