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Sometimes history brings people painful disillusionment.
Major conflicts often get focused on a particular battlefield. Like Gettysburg — in the American Civil War. Like Waterloo — where the battle t…
In “Under the Banner of ‘Life’s Flourishing,’” [The News & Advance, May 16] I argued that the Good is completely tied into the values that…
Back last June, the danger was already visible. In a column I published here then, I put it this way: “If Joe Biden appears headed toward vict…
One might say that the big drama on this planet has been one of “the Living and the Dead.” The earth started out lifeless, and then something …
So Virginia has voted to allow marijuana (a.k.a. cannabis) to join the list of mind-altering drugs that are legal for adults to use.
One might say that I was fated to see “creativity” as something of great value.
For something like 60 years, I’ve been driven to understand the Big Picture. Although I focus particularly on the human world, I also try to c…
There are two reasons I’ve been preoccupied with how the majority of the Republican base has so thoroughly bought the “Big Lie” about the elec…
Previously, I defined “evil” as a “coherent force” that consistently spreads “a pattern of brokenness.”
Though I rarely feel I see the future clearly enough to make predictions, this is a moment when I envision these two as highly probable:
It is unclear how much the Republicans in Congress will have the power to obstruct whatever the new American President seeks to do legislative…
It is unclear how much the Republicans in Congress will have the power to obstruct whatever the new American president seeks to do legislative…
The Civil War was a terrible bit of history, not least because it isn’t just history. It’s still with us.
The Civil War was a terrible bit of history, not least because it isn’t just history. It’s still with us.
Call it “The Problem of Herd Immunity.”
America is at a crossroads. We can continue on the path where our politics are consumed by conflict, the nation drifting even further into bro…
America is at a crossroads. We can continue on the path where our politics are consumed by conflict, the nation drifting even further into bro…
Years ago, when we lived in the city, I used to take my toddler son grocery shopping.
Years ago, when we lived in the city, I used to take my toddler son grocery shopping. I joked I took him to the supermarket because I wanted h…
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A lot of us have been hurting in some way from living through these dark times. Not only the pandemic, but also — and for most of the people I…
Imagine a present-day Rip Van Winkle waking up from a 20-year slumber and discovering that it will soon be time to vote in a presidential elec…
No Americans in their right minds in, say, 1980, or 1990, would have chosen for the American future where we as a nation find ourselves now—no…
All along, the battle of the 2020 Election has been over whether American democracy will survive. But there’s recently been a major change in …
It is nearly a certainty that, if Joe Biden appears headed toward victory, American democracy will face a threat of potentially historic proportions.
I’m in some turmoil about whether I’d be able to cope well emotionally with what our future may hold.
One of the interesting experiences I get from watching old movies (off my DVR) is that I get to glimpse often the world as it was when I was g…
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