The Circle Of Insight

Join Dr. Carlos as he discusses Clinton's email scaBday with Attorney George Parry. The Davis, Pary, Tyler Office Davis, Parry & Tyler is a law firm located at 1525 Locust Street (14th Floor), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The firm's partners are Robert Davis, George Parry, and Thomas Tyler. We have vast experience (over 100 years of combined experience) in complex litigation and high quality custom...

Join Carlos Vazquez as he explores the politics of food. The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and underregulated commercial farmers are facing stronger...

Join Dr. Carlos as he discusses Islam, women's rights and sharia with Raheel Raza. Devout Muslim, Raheel Raza, gained international attention by appearing on the O’Rielly Factor in protest of the Ground Zero mosque. As a Pakistan-born Canadian Muslim she seems to break all conventions. Though a self-labeled feminist and progressive, Americans might call her a “conservative” for her general disdain...

Join us as we explore Why we eat bad foods with Dr. Campbell. Trained at Cornell (M.S., Ph. D.) and MIT (Research Associate) in nutrition, biochemistry and toxicology, T. Colin Campbell spent 10 years on the faculty of Virginia Tech’s Department of Biochemistry and Nutrition before returning to the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell in 1975 where he presently holds his Endowed Chair (now...

This valuable and nonacademic guide reveals the extent to which we are surrounded by persuasion, and how we can resist. Levine (A Geography of Time), a professor of psychology at Cal State Fresno, opens by demonstrating that all of us (including himself) can be persuaded under the right circumstances. He goes on to study financial manipulation and the use of the sense of obligation (which exists i...

Join Dr. Carlos and Dr. Amirkizi as they discuss social media contagion & mass shootings and terrorism & digital media with Dr. Jennifer Johnston and Professor Brigitte Nacos. Jennifer B. Johnston, PhD, of Western New Mexico University. Attempts to answer Is the relationship merely unidirectional: More shootings lead to more coverage? Or is it possible that more coverage leads to more shootings?”...

Join Dr. Carlos as he discusses white slavery in the Mediterranean during 1500-1800 with Dr. Davis. Robert C. Davis is a professor emeritus from the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. This is a study that digs deeply into this 'other' slavery, the bondage of Europeans by North-African Muslims that flourished during the same centuries as the heyday of the trans-Atlantic trade from sub-Saharan Afr...

Join Dr. Carlos as he discusses Islam and American values with Dr. Jasser. Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser is the founder and president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD). Dr. Jasser is a first generation American Muslim whose parents fled the oppressive Assad regime of Syria in the mid-1960s for American freedom. A devout Muslim, Dr. Jasser founded AIFD in the wake of the 9/11 attacks as an e...

Join Dr. Carlos as he discusses excessive cell phone use with Dr. Barkley. Dr. Jacob Barkley received his B.S. degree in Physical Education with a concentration in Exercise Physiology from the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Brockport in 1998. He then enrolled at SUNY University at Buffalo where he earned both his M.S. (2002) and Ph. D. (2007) in Exercise Science. During his graduat...

Join Carlos as he explores if Father's matter with Dr. Pruett. Is it true that father absent homes are highly correlated with criminal deviancy and teenagers? We will find out. Are there differences between the mother and father in the physical emotional and cognitive development of children? Does it matter how a father speak to toddlers? What can a father provide to a teenager? How can a father m...

Join Dr. Carlos and Dr. Amirkizi as they discuss the situation in Turkey with Foreign Policy Expert Aaron Stein from the Atlantic Council and Iraq & Syria with Former CIA operative Bob Daugherty and VP of Adriden Global. Aaron Stein is a resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East. His research interests include US-Turkey relations, Turkish foreign poli...

Join Dr. Carlos as he discusses human rights in the Middle East with Dr. Chase. Why have human rights been marginalized in the Arab world? How do we gauge the relevance of human rights in the region, given the political, social, and economic context? What are the practical and theoretical obstacles to the implementation of these rights? Human Rights in the Arab World: Independent Voices offers per...

Join Dr. Carlos as discusses empathy and even a bit about Donald Trump with Eve Ekman. Eve Ekman is currently a Post Doctoral Scholar at UCSF’s Osher Center for Integrative Medicine. Ekman’s research interests were inspired by her experience as a medical social worker in the emergency department of San Francisco General Hospital coupled with her training in the applied emotion regulation and mindf...

Join Dr. Carlos as he discusses China's economy with Arthur Kroeber. China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic growth story of the last three decades. In the 1980s China was an impoverished backwater, struggling to escape the political turmoil and economic mismanagement of the Mao era. Today it is the world's second biggest economy, th...

Join Carlos Vazquez as he explores U.S. & Cuban relations with Professor Lopez. Professor Lopez has published extensively in his field, most recently on the late Cuban author Virgilio Piñera, recent developments in Latin American genre fiction, and the work of Mexican poet and novelist Homero Aridjis. He also presents widely at international conferences, most recently at the XXV CANELA Conference...

Join Dr. Carlos as discusses are we getting smarter with Dr. James Flynn. IQ gains are persisting into the 21st century, particularly in the developing world: the 'Flynn effect' marches on! This exciting new book by James R. Flynn aims to make sense of the continued rise in IQ scores and considers what this tells us about our intelligence, our minds and society. About the Author James R. Flynn is...

Dr. Carlos discusses racism with Derryck Green. Derryck Green is a political commentator, writer, and a member of Project 21 - a National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives. His work has been featured and cited in a number of media outlets, including Townhall, The American Spectator, NBC, The Daily Caller, The American Conservative, CQ Researcher and many newspapers across the United States...

Join Dr. Carlos as he discusses acupuncture with Dr. Chin. Bridget Chin, Staff physician and acupuncturist at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Topic: “Acupuncture for Health and Wellness”

Join Carlos as explores the psychology of method acting with Dr. Beguiristain. Theatrical Realism was an American film movement of the 1950s noted for its high aspirations to create a significant 'art' cinema. Ironically, the films that comprise this movement are virtually forgotten today. As Hollywood's continuation of the Italian Neo-Realist movement, Theatrical Realism was a direct result of th...

Dr. Carlos discusses islam with Peter Hammond This is a fascinating, well illustrated and thoroughly documented response to the relentless anti-Christian propaganda that has been generated by Muslin and Marxist groups and by Hollywood film makers. As Karl Marx declared: “The first battlefield is the re-writing of History!” “Peter knows first hand the nature of the enemy the West is facing and expo...

Join Dr. Carlos as he explores agricultural innovation in Africa with Dr. Calestuous. African agriculture is currently at a crossroads, at which persistent food shortages are compounded by threats from climate change. But, as this book argues, Africa faces three major opportunities that can transform its agriculture into a force for economic growth: advances in science and technology; the creation...

Join Dr. Carlos as he discusses capitalism with Dr. Wolfram. Gary Wolfram is the William E. Simon Professor in Economics and Public Policy at Hillsdale College. He is also president of the Hillsdale Policy Group, a consulting firm specializing in taxation and policy analysis. Product Description The Communist Manifesto of 1848-the blueprint for modern totalitarian government-promises utopia but de...

The adventurous woman nicknamed La Belle Créole is brought to life in this book through the full use of her memoirs, contemporary accounts, and her intimate letters. The fascinating María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, also known as Mercedes, and later the Comtesse Merlin, was a Cuban-born aristocrat who was years ahead of her time as a writer, a socialite, a salon host, and a participant...

Join Dr. Carlos as he discusses morality with Dr. Wiltermuth. Scott Wiltermuth researches how socio-environmental factors affect people’s reactions to unethical behavior and their likelihood of behaving unethically themselves. He also researches how interpersonal dynamics, such as synchrony and dominance, affect people’s willingness to cooperate with others. He has published papers in Journal of P...

Join Dr. Carlos as he discusses how to know if the media is biased with Dr. Groseclose. Dr. Groseclose is a professor of economics at George Mason University