When Robots Take Your Job (Non-dystopian version)

This morning, I was reading the umpteenth post on Reddit about how robots will take over all of our jobs. Most of the voices speak of how we’ll descend into a post-apocalyptic nightmare. Those who have lost jobs as long-haul truckers, janitors, and sundry types of labor that…

The Conditional Compassion of Liberals

On September 10, 1979, I was sitting in a history class during my sophomore year of high school and experiencing a lot of anxiety. This wasn’t because a test was coming or I had to answer a question, but rather because I was raised a Christian and some of the…

How Liberals Got Trump Elected

In 1989, I moved to Tokyo and started working as a teacher. Unsurprisingly, I looked at the culture through ethnocentric eyes. The Japanese were too accomodating and worried too much about what others thought. The way in which I thought they suppressed their own needs for…