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• Make America America Again

  

  When I wrote recently about the coming elections, I didn’t mention “health care.” Which Democrats pitch as their main issue. (Republicans respond by lying... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Love, Sex, and the Internet

  

  The Economist recently ran a great report on how the internet has changed dating and mating. Mostly for the better.It has brought much efficiency and rationalit... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Midterms: Exterminate Republicans

  

  I was a devoted conservative Republican for 53 years. Today’s Republican party must be exterminated (electorally). It’s in thrall to a cruel monster of... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Our Coming Immortality

  

  Woody Allen said, “I don’t want to live on in my films. I want to live on in my apartment.”Humanity has always battled nature’s limitations — including bodily... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Jamal Khashoggi, and Murderers We Love

  

  The rule used to be that you could murder all the people you liked within your own borders, but doing it elsewhere was a no-no.Or was it? Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Now It Really Begins: the End of Our Democracy

  

  The National Park Service is proposing to charge protesters for demonstrating in the nation’s capital.You read that right: a fee, levied by the government,... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What is the Basis for Morality?

  

  This question has vexed philosophers through the ages. My humanist book group is reading Kenan Malik’s The Quest for a Moral Compass — a Global History of... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Secular Rescue – Saving Lives, Freedom, and Open Debate

  

  Religion can inspire good deeds. Or killing people with machetes.This is happening today, notably in Bangladesh, where organized vigilantes target and murder... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Religion, Politics, and Abortion

  

  A piece by “writer and consultant” Jacob Lupfer on my local paper’s “Faith Values” page talked mainly about political independents. Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Anti-Trump Albany Book Festival

  

  This event, put on by the wonderful New York State Writers Institute, was not really political. But nobody would read this if I just titled it “Albany Book... Read more

  Posted on 04 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• An Hysterical Republican Message

  

  Because I once contributed, I still get Republican fundraising emails. It’s a revealing — and scary — window into their world. (Click here for one parroting... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Non-ugly American in Somaliland: Jonathan Starr’s Abaarso School

  

  Bad news abounds. Even efforts to improve the world often do the opposite — that’s the history of foreign aid and development initiatives. “Ugly American”... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Kavanaugh: America Grabbed by the Pussy

  

  He said/she said. She testified about sexual transgressions by the Supreme Court nominee. He rejoined with an emphatic, highly emotional denial. I was inclined... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump’s Cruel War on Refugees and Immigrants Intensifies

  

  When, for this post, I googled “U.S. refugee admissions,” the very first thing that came up was this quote on the State Department’s website:“The United States... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Statement by the Honorable Brett Kavanaugh

  

  Members of the Senate, and fellow citizens:Telling the truthTwo women — Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, and Deborah Ramirez — have described episodes of improper... Read more

  Posted on 25 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• White Pride and White Privilege

  

  Omarosa, in her book, tells of asking Steve Bannon whether it’s true that he’s a racist. “No,” he answered. “The same way you are a proud African-American woman... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Truth, Beauty, and Goodness

  

  Which among the three would you choose?I read Howard Gardner’s 2011 book, Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Twenty-first... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Idlib: the Coming Holocaust

  

  Idlib is the last part of Syria still holding out against the Assad regime. Which, together with its Russian, Iranian, and Hezbollah allies, is readying a... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Readers’ Poll

  

  1. Trump recently tweeted that the Department of Justice should not have indicted two “very popular” Republican congressmen for crimes before the mid-term... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Richard Wolff in Sheep’s Clothing, on Capitalism Versus Socialism

  

  I heard Richard Wolff again on “Alternative [left-wing] Radio.” He’s the “Marxist” economics professor whose LOL take on first class airplane seats I wrote... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY