Meditations

Martin is down with respiratory flu, so we’re re-posting one of his columns from September 2015, which sadly, was prophetic. It was good to get out of the Central Valley.…

If the events of recent weeks have demonstrated anything, it is that the Enlightenment ideals of reason and rationality cannot hold sway over the realities of belief and emotional irrationality.…

There’s an idea floating around that smartphones, Facebook and hyper-connectivity have fundamentally altered not just the way we live, but who we are.

My youngest sister called today while driving home to Saginaw from Kalamazoo, where her daughter is soon to graduate from college. We barely mentioned the latest eruption of evil in…

Humanity’s place in the universe is one of the great-unanswered questions of philosophy and science. The search remains compulsively outward and external however. I maintain the answer is first within.

Philosophers have an expression that has always been more aspiration than actuality. It reflects what I think we all want, whether we’ve spent decades in philosophical inquiry or are simply…

The little lake was so calm, and the mirroring of the clouds so clear and complete, that one felt, in staring at their reflection, that one was looking at the…

Does science increase wonder or quash it? Over a hundred years since Einstein poured the foundation for modern physics and postulated the existence of gravity waves, scientists at LEGO, I…