Op/Ed Message to Both Conservatives and Liberals about How "the Good"...
This piece has appeared this weekend in newspapers in VIrginia’s 2/3 red 6th congressional district. It challenges both sides of our cultural and political divide to change — in some fundamental way —...
View ArticleExtemporaneous Thoughts on Things Personal, the American Crisis, and the Fate...
This video represents a major departure from my usual way of doing things. I didn’t do any planning, didn’t gear everything to conveying some pre-determined “point” that was the inspiration for sharing...
View ArticleQ: How Did Trump Defeat the Rule of Law? A: Widespread Brokenness in the...
This piece will be appearing as an op/ed in newspapers in the very red congressional district (VA-06) in which I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012.*****************************How Did...
View ArticleAmerica’s Future Has Never Looked So Uncertain
This piece will be appearing this weekend as an op/ed in newspapers in the very red congressional district (VA-06) in which I ran for Congress as the Democratic nominee in...
View ArticleHow a Pro-Democracy Billionaire or Two Could Neutralize Part of the Trump...
The Fascistic President has his oligarchs. A good billionaire or two could blunt Trump’s ability to intimidate Americans, with bogus prosecutions, SLAPP lawsuits, and maybe siccing his brown-shirts on...
View ArticleMarijuana Consciousness's Impact on Culture (VIDEO)
The coming of coffee to Europe had a major impact on the history of Western civilizations, some reputable historians say. The use of marijuana in America is rising pretty sharply, and the question...
View ArticleA Bit of Good News on the Firing-of-the-Inspectors-General Front
The “fired” people — the Inspectors-General — have written back to Trump pointing out that his order to terminate them was illegal, and they’ll be coming back to work.(That’s what Norm Eisen just...
View ArticleCan't Stand to Look at What's Happening? But Don't Want to Give up the Fight?...
It would be hard to overstate how serious my purpose is in this posting: it involves my life-long life-mission. Which is to convey — to as many people as possible — a way of understanding the...
View ArticleSupporting Evidence Indicating that "This 'Big Picture' Can Help Us Defeat...
I recently posted here a video in which I invited people — who find it too painful to spend much time on our immediate battle against this destructive Trumpian force, but want to stay in the battle, to...
View Article"The Dog that Didn't Bark": A Condemnation of America's News Media
Today, in the NORTHERN VIRGINIA DAILY, there has run a piece titled “Plenty of Blame to Go Around.” The “Blame” in question is for the extraordinary development that Donald Trump — long at war against...
View ArticleA Big Picture View for Those Who Want to Keep Fighting (Without Focusing on...
This posting is the second of two to invite people to check out a way of understanding our situation, and the challenges we face. The title of the previous posting indicates what I think this “way of...
View ArticleStart Calling Out the Republicans for COWARDICE
Accusations of cowardice have a special standing in the American culture. We make heroes of criminals, we make heroes of gangsters, we make heroes of scoundrels. But we do not make heroes of...
View ArticleI Wonder How the TV Coverage of the Super Bowl Will Deal With Trump's Presence
The TV people are in a bind. Or at least so I imagine.Never has the nation been this intensely divided about a President.Intense devotion in the cult, people who would be furious if the TV coverage...
View ArticleWar College: Understanding the Reality of a 'Force of Evil' in the Human World
Twenty years ago, I went around the United States giving speeches arguing that “The Concept of ‘Evil’” was important— important because such a “Force of ‘Evil’” had taken over the once-respectable...
View ArticleAsking Trump Voters about the Chances They'll Have "Buyer's Remorse"(Op/Ed...
This is my weekly op/ed running in newspapers in the very red congressional district (VA-06) in which I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012— not elected, of course, in that 2:1 Republican...
View ArticleWhat's Good to Romanticize, and What's Not (11-minute VIDEO)
The crucial thing is this: Is the romanticization distilling out the essential goodness of a basically good thing? Or is it putting lipstick on a pig. In other words, is it simplifying something...
View ArticleFor Valentine's Day: "The Sacred Space of Lovers"
This piece was my weekly op/ed some years ago in newspapers in my region of Virginia. (It was then a respite from dealing with the ugly situation in America during Trump’s first term.) Perhaps in this...
View ArticleOur Vindictive President Reminds Us of How Revenge is a Tool of "Evil" (VIDEO...
The impulse to strike back at those who hit us seems built in. But culture can cultivate and magnify that need for revenge. When we look at how revenge impacts the human world, it becomes clear that...
View ArticleShowing Trump Voters: Trump Has Made Us Ugly in the Eyes of America's Friends...
[This piece is running as an op/ed in newspapers in the very red congressional district (VA-06) in which I ran as the Democratic nominee for Congress in 2012. It is appearing under the title,...
View ArticleAnother Op/Ed Challenging the Trumpers in My Very Red Part of Virginia (VA-06)
This piece will be appearing this week as an op/ed in newspapers in the very red part of Virginia (VA-06) where I was the Democratic nominee for Congress in...
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