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Apr 26, 2023
Brutal Force
Instead of defunding, what about disarming the police and completely rethinking the nature of public safety?
The twisted irony here—the irony of the brutal murder of Tyre...
Mar 22, 2023
Stay Woke
Despite the word’s abduction, the spiritual truth behind it remains a political force for change
This is from one of the people I’m least likely...
Nov 30, 2022
The Eagle and the Condor
Loving nature or profiting from it
It’s fascinating how “interests” interfere with survival. Humans prepare for—and, of course, wage—war with an overwhelming percentage of their...
Nov 23, 2022
The Alchemy of Forgiveness
Transcending the morality police
I have been haunted by a phrase: “morality police.”
The news has been global. A 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, was arrested as she was...
Sep 28, 2022
You Belong to U.S.: The U.S. military and American youth
Ah, the children!
They belong to us, sayeth the Department of Defense. At least some of them do.
It’s a little more complicated than it used...
Aug 24, 2022
The True Threat to America: With wars to wage, who can afford peace?
Texas and Arizona have begun busing refugees at their border—at a cost of millions—up to a couple liberal northern cities . . . let’s...
Aug 17, 2022
Civil War?: White supremacists want ‘their’ country back
Is an insurrection percolating in the MAGA universe? A civil war?
One thing I notice as I read the growing warnings that this is the...
Aug 3, 2022
The Cynics’ Monkey Wrench: Creating context in an era of chaos
If you depart from an “us vs. them” philosophy of life, your first confrontation is likely to be with the cynics.
Last week, for instance,...