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• “The Discovery” — Scientific Proof of Heaven

  

  Our daughter recommended seeing this Netflix film, “The Discovery.” It starts with scientist Thomas Harbor (Robert Redford) giving a rare interview about his... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• George H. W. Bush

  

  “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” That was a novel’s famous first line. George H.W. Bush was president in just such a foreign... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Movie Review: The Grinch, a Humanist Film

  

  For our anniversary we decided on dinner and a movie. After carefully studying reviews of all current offerings, my wife chose The Grinch. (She’s a big... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Republicans, and the Hole in America’s Moral Soul

  

  “Republicans must stand up to Trump,” declared the heading on a recent Michael Gerson column.“How fatuous,” I thought.GersonGerson is a former Bush 43... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Do People Still Need Religion?

  

  My daughter asked my opinion about an essay in the New York Times, by philosophy professor Stephen Asma, titled, “What Religion Gives Us (That Science Can’t).”... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trump, China, and the Axis of Evil

  

  For a long time we imagined China’s rise would be its growing up — into a mature member of responsible world society. But now that society itself is looking eve... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “really Scary !!!”

  

  That was the all-caps heading on a blast email, to me and some others, from a Texan acquaintance. He’s pro-Trump and always saying Democrats are commie... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “Educated” by Tara Westover — Wow!

  

  There’s a huge genre of “Parents from Hell” memoirs. Tara Westover’s is intensely gripping.She was born in 1986 into an extremist Mormon family, standing in... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Bitcoin: a Solution in Search of a Problem

  

  Since coins are my business, perhaps I should discuss Bitcoin.It’s a “cryptocurrency” or digital currency. Or supposed to be. Existing only in cyberspace but... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Impeach Or Not Impeach: That is the Question

  

  No president — probably no public official — has ever merited impeachment more than Trump. That’s even before Mueller’s report.If our civic system were working... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What the Election Means

  

  JonesCNN commentator Van Jones said you’d think America’s “antibodies would kick in,” against the disgusting onslaught of lies, hate, bigotry, divisiveness and... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What American Nationalism Should Be

  

  Trump now, defiantly, calls himself a “nationalist.” For lefties it’s a dirty word. Some dream of “one world” uniting all humanity. John Lennon sang “imagine... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Caravan and the Craven

  

  Democrats make health care the main issue of this election. For Trump it’s the “caravan.” Labeling it an “invasion” of criminals, “bad people,” Islamic... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2018 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 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