Marketing or Advertising?

Is effective marketing a cultural assault?

Is advertising educating?

Is news marketing?

If so, for what?

If not, why not?

Pragmatism or Optimism. What is A More Useful Approach?

Reaction or Proaction?

Engineering or Design?

Linear thinking or Lateral thinking?

What Should Have Priority in our School Systems?

Science or Art?

Literature or Social Science?

Constitutional Studies or Media Studies?

Political Science or Religious Studies?

Majority Rules or Minority Rights?

How do we balance the power of a majority with the needs and rights of a minority?

How much power should a significant minority have and how can it be manifested?

Should Individual Citizens Have the Same Rights as Corporations?

Should a failing bank be bailed out by taxpayers for assuming ill-considered risk?

Should an individual be bailed out by taxpayers for assuming ill-considered risk?

Should small businesses have those same rights?

In a free market is risk- reward only the purview of small investors?

Should Oil Companies Pay Windfall Taxes?

Given that most oil fields have been discovered, what is the current market risk to oil companies?

Is an unrestrained market in essential goods harmful to national security?

Is A Universal Standard of Ethics Possible?

If so, who or what determines it?

If not, how can we adjust our determination of what is ethical?

How can we apply those ethical standards?

Does Foreign Aid Work?

Can any country survive on foreign aid?

How can foreign aid investment benefit the giving nation?

How much foreign aid is enough? 1% of GDP?  5% of GDP?  10% of GDP? 

Is it Oil?

Does our addiction to oil reveal an even greater addiction to consumerism?

Does it reveal a fundamental flaw in how our cities work?

Are we fooling ourselves when we think that alternative energy will cure our destructive addictions?

Is it like methadone and heroin?

Is The American Senate Democratic?

Should Americans re-write their constitution?

Should Congressmen have to spend more time raising money than legislating?

Should elected officials be able to choose their voters? (gerrymandering)

Do Human Cells Possess Intelligence?

If so, can we tap into it?

If not, how do they "know" when to divide, or what kind of cells they are?

Can we understand ourselves from the inside out?

Can Education Flourish in a Consumer-Based Society?

Does American culture promote ignorance of history?

Are Americans anti-intellectual?

Can an American Education System be revitalized enough to transform the culture?

Is Fashion Important?

Does it transend social and economic divisions?

Is it an expression of genetically programmed signals designed to attract and express?

Is it an art form?

Which is Preferable...

Genetically engineered food that could feed hundreds of millions cheaply?

Or

Organic food for all but at a much higher cost?

Can Good Intentions Overcome Bad Systems?

Do bad systems eventually corrupt the system users?

Can corrupt users corrupt good systems?

Can fundamentally bad systems be corrected?

Should Life Saving Drugs be Patented?

If so, for how long?

If not, how do we compensate the developing companies?

Should the prices of these drugs be regulated?

What is saving a life worth?

Which is More Effective?

Incremental Change or Distruptive change?

Slow Change or Fast Change?

Rennovation of "tried and true" Systems or Ground Up New Design Unbugged?

Constant Fluid Change or Intermittent Dynamic Change?

Why do People Have Children?

Because-

They are optimistic about the future?

They like raising them in  the image of themselves?

They want them to build a better future?

They want to feel powerful and significant?

Canon fodder is needed?

They like small helpless beings around?

It's what people do?

Is Hipness Stupid?

Is it based on ideas, fashion, entertainment or status?

Is hipness cultural coding for anti-intellectual insiders?

Is hipness about smugness that reinforces a desperate sense of significance?

Can hipness last?

Does anyone care?

Who owns Airwaves?

Should corporations "own and control" broadcast airwaves in perpetuity?

Do they have a responsibility to use them for more than profit?

Does owning a forest, a river, or lake involve absolve the owner of responsibility to the greater good?

Is corporate social responsibility antithetical to shareholder value?