Meditations

Physicists and astronomers hubristically seek a “theory of everything.” But here’s a truth few scientists will admit: Our knowledge of the universe can never be complete and will never make…

Many people on this Earth Day are concerned about ecological and civilizational collapse. Some think it’s happening, and will spell our extinction as a species. Others think it can still…

“Evidence of non-corrupt motives weighs heavily against any allegation that the President had a corrupt intent to obstruct the investigation.” “Culture change happens when a small group of people find…

Even for those who never saw Notre Dame Cathedral, even for those who have no use for organized religion, the fire engulfing one of humankind’s oldest and greatest architectural structures…

“The greatest triumph of the devil in the modern age is convincing people that he doesn’t exist.” Even as a boy, I didn’t understand the contradiction between Palm Sunday, which…

‘Higher thought’ is an extremely powerful evolutionary adaptation, allowing humans to create and build all the things in the world. But we idolize it and project it onto the universe,…

Most people have heard of the Hegelian Dialectic, in which thesis and antithesis clash in opposition and produce a new and different thesis. True dialogue does not work that way…

Pour the Foundation, and Keep It Liquid Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony…