by Michelle Sioson | Oct 1, 2025 | Climate Change
At his September 24 speech before the UN General Assembly, President Trump called climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated” and added that “the carbon footprint is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions.” I agree with him on both counts, but will...
by Michelle Sioson | Jan 2, 2025 | Science and Religion
No book until Jordan Peterson’s We Who Wrestle With God has helped me make sense of the books of the Old Testament to my satisfaction. The God of the Old Testament has always struck me as arbitrary and gratuitously cruel. Thus, I always have been faced with choosing...
by Michelle Sioson | Oct 7, 2024 | Government, Markets, and You
Even the most casual observer of Kamala Harris would be hard pressed to conclude that she is competent, trustworthy, articulate, hard-working, full of well thought through policy proposals, and concerned about the good of the country. Yet the presidential race...
by Michelle Sioson | Jul 17, 2024 | Science and Religion
John Lennox, Christian apologist and professor emeritus of mathematics at Oxford, reminds us that while science can tell us how our world works, it cannot tell us anything about why we are here. His observation strikes me as unarguably true, but it begs the question...
by Michelle Sioson | Jul 8, 2024 | Living Smart, Living Well
The best, simplest, most common sense explanation I have heard for what determines one’s health came from a retired physician friend of mind: “Your health is 1/3 genes, 1/3 luck, and 1/3 how you take care of yourself. His point was not that the proportions were just...
