America: Where Hatred is Cultivated as a Civic Passion

10.02.2022 __”I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough,” Isaac Asimov wrote in a Continue reading →

Who Needs a Library When We Have the Internet?

05.02.2021 ________________________________________ “Who needs a library when we have the Internet?” I recently read on a local blog dedicated to Continue reading →

Election Day 2020: Letter to My Granddaughter

11.03.2020 ________________________________________ Good morning, my little one – I’m up early because it’s Tuesday, Nov. 3rd, 2020, and I need Continue reading →

Ignorance is the Most Ferocious Enemy Justice Can Have

08.30.2020 ________________________________________ “White America would never elect such a person to the highest office in the land,” Eddie Glaude, Jr. Continue reading →

Stupidity is a Dangerous Enemy of The Good

07.12.2020 ________________________________________ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor and theologian who helped found Germany’s Confessing Church in order to resist the Continue reading →

‘It Must Suck to be That Dumb’

11.10.2019 ________________________________________ “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States and there always has been,” professor and science Continue reading →

Proud of you: Trump. Bannon. Roy Moore

10.29.2017 ________________________________________ When at least two American citizens were identified as being among the more than 360 dead, killed on Continue reading →

Who’s leading whom: Pyongyang. Tehran. Paris.

04.23.2017 ________________________________________   From Pyongyang to Paris foreign affairs dominated the stage this week – and not much of the Continue reading →