Victor D. López, Author

This is another poem from my Echoes of Dawn at Dusk: Collected Poems (Volume 2) collection (c) 2021. I am disturbed by the rebranding and repackaging of the same old, failed, destructive ideas (Marxism) as shiny, new objects of veneration for a different set of uninformed pawns in the same old chessboard. Distributive justice, "American Socialism", identity politics, stifling of dissent, revisionist histories, banning of ideas/books/people and the polarization of the masses by race rather than by economic class or status (this go-round) to avoid giving away the same rotten foundation behind the shiny facade. A revolution is taking place reimagining Marxism "for a new century" but using the same exact playbook and leading us to the identical ruination that the original version wrought on every country that imposed it through the business end of a gun. Bad ideas will always flourish when planted in the fatuous, the uninformed, the hate-filled (and the love-filled who confuse the hatred of those they follow for self-righteous indignation). So it begins again and will end again in ruin, only to be reborn like a zombie phoenix yet again in the next generation, rebranded, repackaged and resold as the same malodorous steaming pile of dung it is to a growing market eager to ingest it for fear of being seen as lacking a sophisticated palate. Bad ideas never die. They rise from the ashes of the fools that died from espousing them to infect a new generation of fatuous zombies pumping fists in the air while marching down the road to perdition. 

This is a poem from my Echoes of Dawn at Dusk: Collected Poems (Volume 2) collection (c) 2021.

This podcast involves a reading of a preview of the short story "Earth Mother" from my recently released short story collection, Echoes of the Mind's Eye: 13 Speculative Fiction Short Stories (c) 2021.

This podcast deals with the long-standing, unresolved issue of unaffordable college textbooks in an effort to answer the question of why at a time when anyone can publish a book without cost students are still forced to pay upwards of $200 each for their college textbooks in many (most?) of their college and university undergraduate and graduate courses.

A poem from my Echoes of Dawn at Dusk: Collected Poems (Volume 2) (c) 2021

A poem from my Echoes of Dawn at Dusk: Collected Poems (Volume 2) (c) 2021

A poem from my Echoes of Dawn at Dusk: Collected Poems (Volume 2) (c) 2021

I have written about ethics and principled leadership for many years in various venues, including an article published about a decade ago in the University of Botswana Law Journal. This podcast focuses on the ten characteristics that I believe define principled leaders, regardless of which ethical philosophy they espouse. 

This is a preview reading of the first pages of my short story Amor Vincit Omnia which is available both as a stand-alone ebook and is also one of the 13 short stories in my Echoes of the Mind's Eye collection. I hope you enjoy it.

This is a brief presentation on a paper I presented last month at the annual conference of the North East Academy of Legal Studies in Business (NEALSB) that deals with the issue of notarial fraud and examines the training, powers and qualifications of notaries public throughout the U.S. in contrast with the vast majority of countries around the world to explain why so many foreign-born immigrants fall prey to unscrupulous notaries public that fraudulently engage in the unauthorized practice of law. The paper is titled "When Legal Systems Clash: Why Foreign-Born Residents Fall Prey to Unscrupulous Notaries Public and What Can Be Done to Prevent It."