Author: RMDell’Orfano
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Our City Crises: A Mechanical Failure
A village parable reveals why New York’s crisis isn’t about greed or compassion—but a broken economic mechanism no one wants to inspect.
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The Wrong Career
Even back in 1963, sitting in that lecture hall, I had felt a similar confusion—and quietly recognized that I had entered the wrong room. I just didn’t yet know why.
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Danger Zone
College in the early 1960s was a collision of ideals and crude impulses, especially for a young man like me who carried a tender conscience into an era of loosening morals.
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That Part of Us Waiting to Be Born
A thoughtful reflection on the Immaculate Conception reinterpreted as a universal symbol of inner renewal, showing how anyone — believer or not — can discover the unbroken self within and allow new life to sprout beyond inherited fear and shame.
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The King Who Built Heaven
I realized that King Ludwig II of Bavaria lived a similar antagonistic pattern Christ faced
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A College Education: The Real Cost
When a Degree Still Made Sense In 1963, my engineering degree from a small private college in New England cost about $2,000 a year — tuition, room, board, and books included. A four-year degree ran roughly $8,000. My first job paid almost the same amount. A year of work absorbed the full cost of a…
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Plato’s Cave Shadows
In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, the shadows on the wall represent illusions and the false reality that people perceive as truth.
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There But for the Grace of God…Go I
If this is how we treat vulnerable humanity—if this is the best we can do—then the failure isn’t theirs. It’s ours. And it is way past time to say so out loud and do something that solves this growing social problem.
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AI Gone Rogue
Suppose you got on ChatGPT and asked it to verify you exist. Then it reports that no such person was ever born.
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Fraternity Hell Week
Hell Week teaches that important social lesson, unless the ritual turns cruel and deadly.
THE TRIQUETRA OF LIFE: Wisdom, Wealth, and Wellness 