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“It’s now time to start moving American dependents out of South Korea,” Senator Lindsay Graham says. The drums of war beat louder each week, but Americans are too willfully deaf…

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…

After a fine conversation, a friend sent me this quote: “Once severed from the future the past becomes an insignificant parade of trivial events no longer organic, no longer potent…

Here’s a chicken-egg problem for which we are both the chickens and the eggs. Does the severity of a crisis determine the adequacy of a response, or does the inadequacy…

World News- Modern humans evolved much earlier than previously thought, researchers reported Wednesday.

I learned a new word the other day–Weltanschauung. Obviously a German mouthful, it means “a comprehensive conception or theory of the world and the place of humanity in it, a…

Sometimes I pass these words stenciled in the center of the park road by some cynical philosopher: “Nature is wrong.” The words are fading away, which brings a smile. Nature…

For the first time in human history, the freedom and liberation of the individual, a psychological revolution in human consciousness as a whole, and effective global governance can go together.…