Arnold Garson: Second Thoughts

To help or not to help two struggling groups: soybean farmers and low-income families

Farmers who grow soybeans and families that are at the lower end of the income scale may not seem to be groups that would have much in common in most…

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Take your pick: Higher education or preventing criticism of certain ideas. You can't have both.

M.I.T.

Oct 13 • 

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The battle over Freedom of Speech: Will the public be the loser again?

What industry leads America in the effort to destroy freedom of speech?

Oct 8 • 

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September 2025

A forgotten college football star who blazed unbelievable records for his time

A story from my childhood memories

Sep 22 • 

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The girl who watched her mother die after ICE sent them from LA back to Guatemala

Guatemala is one of the most violent countries in the Western Hemisphere.

Sep 19 • 

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What you should know about the Hamas tunnels in Gaza

There is at least one thing about the Israel-Hamas war, now approaching its third anniversary, that makes it different than any war ever fought.

Sep 8 • 

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Antisemitism in America -- 300 years and getting worse

The U.S.

Sep 1 • 

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August 2025

The destruction of an important mission of the Smithsonian museums

The President of the United States has a new target: the obliteration of the history of slavery in America as depicted at the Smithsonian museums.

Aug 23 • 

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The dog that helped a family work through its pain

The author of this story is our daughter, Megan Garson Hieronymus, who lives with her husband, Jason, and daughter, Cymry, near Iowa City.

Aug 12 • 

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Numbers, numbers, numbers. It should not be hard for someone with an economics degree from Wharton

President Trump has said repeatedly in recent weeks that he will be cutting the cost of pharmaceuticals made in Europe by up to as much as 14 hundred or…

Aug 4 • 

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July 2025

Remembering Tom Lehrer: Musician, Satirist, Mathematician, and One of a Kind

Despite what a record album of the time promised in its title, the numerous evenings I spent with Tom Lehrer in 1959 were not wasted.

Jul 30 • 

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The Rosenbergs: A different telling of a 70-year-old story

A young married couple was executed in the electric chair. One of them was guilty.

Jul 24 • 

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