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Climate change and Covid Redux
April 13, 2022. I made mention of this uncanny contrast and compare of public policy on climate change and Covid more than a year ago,...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 13, 20224 min read
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Priceless: 120 years of climate change claims
I'd like to say, "You can't make this stuff up," yet, in fact, that is exactly what much of the mainstream global media -- egged on by...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 13, 20223 min read
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Posted lecture notes, Management 101
Posting the first half of my notes for my Loyola Management and Leadership courses, last updates when posted on Moodle in the fall 2018...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 7, 20223 min read
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The myth of critical thinking from liberal arts
Ten years ago I wrote the keynote address for the Colleagues in Jesuit Business Education conference in Milwaukee, written at the behest...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 6, 20223 min read
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College move in day: 1969 v 2017
I have a general memory of my move in day at Harper, with some specifics. It was late August or even early September, just before or --...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 3, 20222 min read
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Destroying human rights with woke terminology
March 24, 2022. A Suicide Foretold: How Social Justice Rhetoric is Turning People off Human Rights. Here are the opening paragraphs. Read...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 2, 20223 min read
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Remembering the Sixties
The joke has long been that "if you can remember the Sixties you weren't really there." Well, maybe this will fill in some blanks for...

Peter Lorenzi
Apr 1, 20222 min read
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Re-distributing income to pursue unattainable equal outcomes
March 2022. In this short YouTube clip, Jordan Peterson claims that equality of outcomes is "an unbelievably pathological wish." Equity...

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 28, 20222 min read
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College, college life, life, all that and all those memories
From SW: Florida Helps Families See Behind the College Curtain Tarren Bragdon Wall Street Journal March 18, 2022 2:22 pm ET Naples, Fla....

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 21, 20228 min read
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The moral, economic and environmental case for fossil fuels
Debate: Should America rapidly eliminate fossil fuel use to prevent climate catastrophe? A debate at The Steamboat Institute Energy and...

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 16, 20222 min read
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Life lessons from Richard Feynman
Five important life lessons from the late physicist...and humanitarian.

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 5, 20221 min read
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The reality of Covid: Follow the facts to find the science
Mafrch 3, 2022. From the Epoch Times, "The truth is coming out about Covid deaths," much of which I have been writing in my posts for the...

Peter Lorenzi
Mar 3, 20221 min read
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Matt Ridley (2016) promotes global greening of the climate
Matt Ridley: Global warming versus global greening (40:29; 2016) I am a passionate champion of science. I have devoted most of my career...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 28, 20225 min read
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French myths about American inequality, fairness and poverty
It was a routine but difficult task to explain to my students the core political difference between the United States and France, namely...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 22, 20226 min read
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Lewis Carroll-like bastardization of the language
February 16, 2022. Do words have meaning? Or are words simply an attempt to control thought and to prescribe values? Or have we just...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 16, 20222 min read
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Dying with, not from, Covid
For the first time since the start of the pandemic, the number of people dying in the U.K. with a recent positive Covid-19 test is...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 11, 20223 min read
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The failures of climate change forecasts
The winter Olympics, other than being meaningless competitions in a place where snow rarely falls, leaving me Tony Heller catalogs many...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 10, 20221 min read
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David Brooks on the "failure" of the nuclear family
"If you want to summarize the changes in family structure over the past century, the truest thing to say is this: We’ve made life freer...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 10, 20224 min read
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Covid: Cause v correlation, prevention v protection
February 8, 2022. The true Covid pandemic has been the viral action of tyrannical politicians, bureaucrats, pundits and mainstream...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 8, 20223 min read
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Is college worth it?
This is a critical question. Here is one presentation on this topical topic. I will offer my critique of this critique below. The problem...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 8, 20223 min read
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