DOCUMENTARY: No Room in the Inn by Pam Dewey

No Room in the Inn

by

Pam Dewey

"Attempting to severely limit immigration to America is a hot-button issue in the political debates of the 21st century. Yet the plaque on the Statue of Liberty has extended a warm invitation to the tired, poor, wretched, huddled masses to find refuge in America for well over a century. Has the view expressed by Lady Liberty somehow changed in recent years? No Room in the Inn is a docucommentary I created that explores the long history of her offer. The political debates over immigration in the Trump Era are nothing new. You may be surprised at what the man or woman in the street thought about immigration and refugees in the 19th and 20th Centuries, including Jewish refugees from the Holocaust of World War II." - Pam Dewey

The Evolution of Western Individualism, Part I of II

A sincere thank you to those who attended Owl & Ibis - A Confluence of Minds on Tuesday, October 23, 2018 for my presentation, The Evolution of Western Individualism, Part I, ”From the East African Rift to Silicon Valley.” For those who missed it a PowerPoint version is here. A PDF copy of the slideshow is here.

A key part of the meeting was an individualism-collectivism measure and an accompanying graph I developed. This may be seen below (click on image) or in higher resolution by downloading it as an MS Excel spreadsheet here. Any comments or questions you may have about the slideshow or the measure and graph are welcome.

Regrettably, I ran over my allotted time presenting Part I and did not allow enough opportunity for discussion. I will be sure to allow plenty of discussion time during Part II, “Individualism in the 20th and 21st Centuries – A Closer Look.”

O&I CALENDAR

November 13 – No Meeting

November 27 – No Meeting

Dec 11 - The Evolution of Western Individualism, Part II, "Individualism in the 20th and 21st Centuries - A Closer Look" by Jim Lassiter

Dec 25 – No Meeting

Jan 08 – Little Known Facts About Gardening by Steve Yothment

Jan 22 – TBD

My Sources of News and Information

                

 I am sometimes asked what sources I use for news and information. In addition to electronic and paper books and a free local weekly newspaper tossed in my driveway every Wednesday (awful opinion page, great crossword puzzle), I read mostly online sources. Some of them I subscribe to at reasonable rates. The following are my main sources for news, articles, commentary, essays, and other information. Very often in reading something I'll explore an embedded link to an additional source. But these are my day-to-day places. If you know and use others you think I might be interested in, please put them and their links in a comment. Thanks!

NEWS New York Times Washington Post PBS News Hour The Guardian BBC CNN Atlanta Journal Constitution Al Jazeera Sky News Deutsche Welle AllAfrica.com ARTICLES, ESSAYS, COMMENTARY American Association for the Advancement of Science Academia ACLU Aeon Arts & Letters Daily Atlantic, The Alternet Brain Pickings Cato Institute Center for Individualism Chronicle of Higher Education Conversation, The Cook Political Report Dark Mountain Project Delanceyplace Economist, The Footnotes to Plato, Massimo Pigliuuci Free Africa Forum Globalist, The Harper’s Hedgehog Review Hoover Institution Huffington Post

Institute of Arts and Ideas, The JSTOR Los Angeles Review of Books Literary Review, The Longreads Medium Microphilosophy Migration Policy Institute Nautilus New Oxonian New Scientist New Statesman New York Review of Books New Yorker, The Objective Standard, The Oxford University Press Blog Patheos Philosopher’s Magazine, The Philosophy Now Quartz ResearchGate RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) Salon Science Daily Science Skeptic Slate Spectator Spiked Spiritual Naturalist Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Times Literary Supplement United Nations Uplift Vox Walrus, The Wikipedia