Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful. — Margaret…
Washington The Virtue Patrol is prowling around on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. It hunts down racists, xenophobes, anti-feminists,…
I saw a bumper sticker the other day that made me laugh: “Make American Smart Again. Impeach Trump.” Let’s see…
Here was the headline in the Washington Post: Trump takes over Fourth of July celebration, changing its location and inserting himself…
Emile Durkheim, a French sociologist, famously discussed something called collective effervescence. Durkheim argued that the universal religious dichotomy of sacrilegious and…
The Easter bombings in Sri Lanka offered a reminder both dramatic and tragic that religious minorities suffer brutally around the…
In my struggling screenwriter days, I lived on Venice Beach, in the Morrison Apartments (named after the pre-Doors rocker who…
The same Beltway braniacs who assured us that the President was in league with Vladimir Putin and sundry other Rȕskī…
It appears that events taking place in Ukraine, both in the past and present, are increasingly reaching the notice of…
