Martin LeFevre

Back when there was a real possibility of superpowers working together for their own good and the good of humanity, I brought a well placed Russian to Ford Aerospace after…

It’s fitting that the end of the American Empire is marked on this feeble 4th of July by slinking out of the “graveyard of empires” with a whimper and a…

A friend and editor, knowing that I’ve been feeling that my insights through this column over the last 25 years haven’t made a difference, and that humankind continues to plunge…

Neuroscientists are discovering more and more how the human brain works, even as they understand less and less the Mind in meditation. For example, “aphantasia” refers to an apparently inherited…

A falcon hovers over the field. Brown hillsides, rounded peaks, and the dark wall of the canyon beyond town stand out in breathtaking relief in the late afternoon sun. As…

For all those women and men whose mothers have died, for all the women who could not have children, and for all the children whose mothers didn’t want to have…

Sometimes you read a sentence that stops you in your tracks. Great writing takes the reader beyond words, and generates a moment of beauty and insight. I came across such…

The most difficult thing for humans to do is to be self-knowing. We all think we know ourselves, and that may be so, as far as self-knowledge goes. But self-knowledge…