In the Bible, in the first real story after those concerning Adam and Eve and their family, God looks down on the earth and “it repented the L…
From 1992 to 2002, I did a whole lot of talk radio on WSVA in Harrisonburg. A regular guest on one show, host of my own show. The audience was…
A former manager for Facebook, turned whistleblower, has created quite a stir by telling the world that Facebook knowingly sacrificed the publ…
My whole adult life has been spent trying to understand the forces that shape the human world.
I’m imagining there are a lot of Republicans who have been fist-bumping and jubilant about the success of the Texas Republicans with their mea…
The heart of the American nation is this fundamental agreement: We agree to fight our battles over power — how it is obtained, and to what pur…
The human world is an enormously rich and complex system. (“Human world” – defined as everything in the world we live in that’s different from…
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On so many levels, the big right-wing outrage these days about the assertion that racism has been a powerful force in American history and soc…
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…
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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.
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