Commonsense Guide to Current Affairs: The Issues We Hear about Every Day from the Standpoint of What the Politicians Have Forgotten--Common Sense

From clones, family, abortion, terrorism, and the concept of the collective to economics, nuclear power, cap and trade, renewable energy, and the politics of climate change, Everest and Bedogne do something much needed and remarkably absent in today's media. They strip away the layers of liberal and conservative ideology to look at the most talked about topics of our time from the standpoint of what the politicians have forgotten--common sense. Brought to light by logic, history, and science, the book filters the issues that in today's world every citizen, student, and educator needs to understand through what we know to be sound--that which we have gained through our day-to-day trials--our all-too-often repressed ability to see things in a practical and matter-of-fact way.

The author of the Threshold to Meaning series, Vincent Frank Bedogne has an academic background that ranges from business, accounting, and economics to physics, engineering, and physical anthropology. He has been a student of Teilhardian philosophy for nearly forty years.

Marcy Everest is a professor of political science with teaching and research experience at Kings College, University of Oregon, Weber State University, South Florida Community College, and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.