A major American newspaper recently featured an article entitled, “A New Dark Age Looms.” Its tortured premise was that drastic climate change would cause humankind to lose “our foundation of…
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Though the rain didn’t begin until nearly 10 this morning, by 3 pm the parkland had already returned to its creatures. A light drizzle, imperceptible in the wood, fell as…
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The word ‘diaspora’ comes from an ancient Greek word meaning “to scatter about.” Historically, it has referred to Jews living outside Israel. But we are all children of diaspora now,…
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Most people would agree that humankind now has a global economy and global society but no global polity. Clearly, as long as we think in terms of nations, and retain…
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The more interconnected the world becomes, the more regressively people cling to identities that no longer fit at all. Or think only in terms of me and my family. American…
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Every child needs to be taught that the map is not the territory, and the word is not the thing. Unfortunately, most adults have never learned it.
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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.
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A welcome series of storms is drenching the valleys and snowpacking the High Sierras in California, bringing crucial relief from a four-year drought. So if you want to get outdoors,…