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• Tales of Bermania

  

  Once traveling with my family through Philadelphia Airport, I encountered an acquaintance, and introduced my little daughter to him as the King of Bermania. I... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Let’s Talk About Race (again)

  

  My 2009 “Rational Optimism” book addressed race. Rejecting the trope of America as a fundamentally racist society, I saw a nation “that has made titanic... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Covid-19: The March of Folly

  

  From the start, Trump repeatedly assured us the virus was under control; no big deal; everyone could get tested; it would go away miraculously; and applauded hi... Read more

  Posted on 03 July 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ethics of Humanitarian and Development Efforts: Problems Versus Symptoms

  

  My daughter Elizabeth, 27, has worked for five years in the Mid-East for humanitarian organizations, currently for a consultancy much involved in Afghanistan.... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How Trump Sinks U.S. Global Standing

  

  One of Trumpdom’s most ludicrous lies is that’s he’s raising America’s world standing. In the Fox News alternate reality maybe. In the real world it’s the... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Confederate Flags and Statues and Racism

  

  They claim the Confederate flag symbolizes Southern cultural heritage, or independence, or states’ rights — or some such baloney. Who do they think they’re... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Big Bang, Big Questions

  

  Our Universe began with the Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ago. It started virtually volumeless, virtually infinitely dense and hot, and then expanded. What... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Ecce Homo

  

  At a Buffalo NY Floyd protest, Martin Gugino, 75, longtime Catholic peace activist, was shoved backward by two policemen in full military gear. His head... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s Death Rallies

  

  Many Trump supporters still think covid-19 is a hoax.* Now he invites them to stake their lives on that.He’ll hold a rally June 20 in Tulsa, Oklahoma; later in... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Biology of the Pandemic

  

  My Capital District Humanist Society recently had a talk (over zoom) on the biology of the pandemic. It was a good scientific overview. Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Margaret Atwood: The Testaments

  

  The Testaments is Margaret Atwood’s sequel to her 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. Set in Gilead, a near-future theocratic dictatorship, in lands between... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “Defund the Police”? Or Law and Order for Police?

  

  Why do liberals try so hard to appear crazy? Could have said “All Lives Matter” or “Black Lives Matter Too.” But making it just “Black Lives Matter” invites... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Save America: Boycott Fox Advertisers

  

  America is in deep trouble. The glue holding it together is dissolving. To say we’re divided into mutually hostile tribes is stating the obvious. But it’s not... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Proof of Heaven?

  

  Dr. Eben Alexander is a Harvard Medical School neurosurgeon. He’d never been a religious nut. Then in 2008, aged 54, he suddenly had a strange and severe... Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Protests and Looting: What’s the Difference?

  

  George Floyd was callously murdered by a police thug. People have risen up in protest. Others took the opportunity for violence and looting. Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• While America Burns

  

  Nero, according to legend, played his fiddle while Rome burned. At least he didn’t fan the flames.Trump’s presidency already represented a collapse of civic... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Will Trump Go in January? Our Civic Nightmare

  

  Last time he said he’d accept the election result only if he won. This time he wields the power of the presidency to make that threat real. Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?

  

  That’s the title of a book in the Edge series edited by John Brockman, each containing short essays by a wide range of leading intellects answering a... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Zoom Event with Biden — is He up for the Job?

  

  I participated in a May 21 Q A with Biden via zoom. It’s been called, in the press, an event for “Wall Street donors.” I’m no Wall Streeter, nor did some other... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Harvey Havel: Dealing with Rejection

  

  This big fat book showed up unexpected in my mailbox. Harvey Havel is a fixture in the local literary scene. Chatting with him at a recent author talk, it had... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2020 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY