America

It’s now clear that the West, and the world generally, are in a race to the bottom. The question is, what lies at the bottom? And what happens when we…

We stood overlooking the volcanic gorge beyond town, an easy 2-mile walk from the gate along a streamside trail. Vultures soared a few meters over our heads, and the black…

I had a fine conversation with a Polish émigré in town today. She spoke vividly of fleeing Poland as a dissident college student in 1988, the year before the Berlin…

Sometimes you read something by a mouthpiece for the status quo that’s so outrageously false, yet so widely and subconsciously accepted, that you want to scream. Here’s such a boner…

Sometimes you stumble across a quote from an expert that so misses the mark that it makes you question your own perception of reality. For example, a renowned child psychologist,…

Is seeking status an immutable aspect of human nature, as social commentators assume? Or is status seeking, like tribalism/nationalism, something that a modicum of self-knowing and right education can affect…

As the highest principle of political and social life, the nation-state has become completely unworkable. A global polity urgently needs to emerge.

Despite my surname, I come from a family of recent Irish immigrants with long memories. I grew up hearing stories about 19th century anti-Irish prejudice in America, epitomized by “No…