Richard Seifman

1 month ago | impakter.com | Claude Forthomme |Richard Seifman

Trump describes his attack on American universities as a war on antisemitism in academia. But the real question is: To what extent does this attack place higher education in America at risk? Could America lose its role as a world leader in academia?

Jan 7, 2025 | impakter.com | Richard Seifman

Andrei Sakharov, the nuclear scientist and principal designer of the Soviet nuclear bomb, in 1968 courageously wrote “Reflections on Progress, Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom,” which was not published in a traditional sense but circulated in an underground network (samizdat). It dealt with the global threat from thermonuclear war, hunger, ecological catastrophe, and despotism.

Nov 19, 2024 | impakter.com | Richard Seifman

Donald J. Trump has been elected the next President of the United States, and the Senate and the House of Representatives will be under Republican control starting in 2025. The extent, where, and how current policies and practices will change are yet to be determined, but there are reasons to make some assumptions about the likely impact on the Federal Government, including possible elimination or reduction of regulations and conceivably all or parts of existing agencies and Departments.

Oct 30, 2024 | impakter.com | Richard Seifman

We sometimes get annoyed when we find there are people who say they are climate change advocates, but their actions don’t match their words. Think of celebrities and the ultra-rich or CEOs who regularly fly private planes while holding themselves out as climate change activists or claim their company is environmentally friendly. Note that at the 2023 World Economic Forum focused on “Climate Change,” global government, business, and academic leaders took over 150 private jets to fly to Davos.

Oct 15, 2024 | impakter.com | Richard Seifman

J.D. Vance, the current U.S. Republican Vice Presidential nominee, created a firestorm when he said in 2021 during his Senate campaign — and doubtless much to his current consternation, now that he’s running for the bigtime and old eruptions are being reincarnated — that the United States was run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.” At the time, he was...