Meditations

The “path of totality” slashed across the United States from Oregon to South Carolina. In the aftermath of the celestial hype devoid of terrestrial hope, it feels like the eclipse…

It’s very hard to see where one’s people and culture fit into the scheme of things with humanity as a whole. Hell, I’m not even sure there is such a…

One of the darlings of NYT, PBS and NPR wrote recently: “The whole depressing spectacle of this moment — the Trump presidency and beyond — is caused by a breakdown…

The observer is the original separation in the human mind. From this existential mistake all division originates, ending in the war between “my country and your country,” “my religion and…

The Cuban Missile Crisis is my first political memory. The fear was palpable. I recall looking in the newspaper at concentric circles of where they thought the missiles could reach.…

We know and accept the cycles of life and death, except when it comes to our selves of course. But is death actually an infinite ground, and communing with it,…

The consensus at present among astronomers and cosmologists is that the universe began with a Big Bang and will end in a Big Chill.

“The universe ends with a fizzle,” a would-be philosopher pronounces in America’s leading newspaper. “Entropy is antagonistic to intrinsic purpose. It’s about disorder.” Thus materialism ends in nihilism, solipsism and…