There are times when continuing within an existing political and psychological paradigm becomes extremely impractical. We stand at just such a moment in world history, and nothing exemplifies it more…
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Meditations
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Science is built on a foundation of observable facts and testable truths. But I recently heard a prominent young physicist utter perhaps the greatest false premise in science when he…
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It was a bizarre week in America. The Boston Marathon bombings, the ricin letters sent to President Obama and two Congressmen, and an explosion the size of a small nuclear…
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The depraved and cowardly terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon comes as no surprise and causes little shock. Though it looks like an act of domestic rather than Islamic terrorism,…
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It’s a warm Sunday morning. After a fine walk along the newly verdant paths in the park, and a pleasant talk with two women on horseback, I stop to sit…
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The original and most popular TV magazine show in America, 60 Minutes, devoted most of the hour last night to interviewing parents of the 6 and 7 year olds massacred…
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It is a strange experience to be in a wilderness in the afternoon, where the bear scat is as big as miniature coke cans, and then be back in the…
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My oldest sister’s daughter—the eldest granddaughter—got married the week before Christmas in the lakeside, snowy, storybook province of northwestern Michigan. No rotting institutions and degenerating traditions embody the sorry state…