Witness the spectacle of Donald Trump, an egregious excuse for the leader of a supposedly great nation (much less “leader of the free world’) crossing the event horizon of the…
Tag:
Meditations
-
-
Though the fog hadn’t burned off as it neared mid-afternoon, I hiked up-canyon beside the same stream that runs through town. The path is named the “Yahi Trail,” after the…
-
A long-time friend of this column in Tanzania, where ‘Meditation’ appeared for 15 years until the Arusha Times went under in 2016, emailed me a heart-wrenching question.
-
“This Is Not A Drill.” No, it’s not. This is what chaos feels like. The fact that so many people ran for their lives in terror in Hawaii on Saturday…
-
Looking up-canyon on the lip of the gorge, a sharp shadowline creeps up the volcanic slabs on the other side. The light suddenly suffuses everything, and becomes ethereal, like nothing…
-
There are two parts to Noam Chomsky’s book, “Hegemony or Survival.” There’s the bulk of the book, in which he gives a scathing analysis of American foreign policy. And then…
-
Ian Tattersall is a paleo-anthropologist, author and curator of the American Museum of Natural History. In his book, “Monkey in the Mirror,” Tattersall defines “symbolic cognitive processes” as the defining…
-
Einstein famously said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” A corollary of this truth is that we cannot look to the same…