What happened to countless families who suffered during that time is unforgivable. The husband of 60 years who sat outside his wife’s hospital window holding signs of love and watching her die, and countless more.
My Dad, a ‘Good’ Death, and the Unforgivable Covid Era Read Journal Article
Elections have consequences. What do I mean? Well, there is a bill being proposed here in New York that would make squatting a crime, and make it more difficult for squatters to gain so many rights against the property owners.
The world as a whole is doing fine, in sum. To widen our smile, let us name and acknowledge five Great Accomplishments of the West that we are proud of, and feel honoured to cherish and defend in these times.
Smell the Roses: Positive Trends and Western Accomplishments Read Journal Article
If we allow the powers that be to make enemies out of each other…we’ve lost. We will splinter off into smaller and smaller factions, become weaker and more diluted, confirm and engrain our tribalism. It makes narcissists of us all.
When we hear the term “clerical abuse,” I think most of us think of perverse sexual behavior. But it seems worth asking if the parameters of the term might need to be expanded to include other abuses of power.
Trouble is always going to exist in River City. Modern-day versions of Professor Harold Hill will continue to present themselves as the savior of communities, and town citizens will place orders to protect themselves from the Fear of the Moment.
There Will Always Be ‘Trouble in River City’ Read Journal Article
Several decades of rapidly increasing inequality in wealth within Western societies have given this a sense of inevitability. However, tempting as it is to seek victimhood, we still have the freedom to highlight it and push back.
Initiatives like these help restore our societies by honouring our deep and powerful diversity. They help to fend off and thwart the constant manipulation attempts of elites hungry for power, while building respect and nurturing progress for all.
This book is available for everyone brave enough to confront the facts. You will find herein the most well-documented presentation of answers to the core questions (what, how, why) that all of us have been asking.
Certainly, any newspaper that might be looking for staff reporters or editors would read a few of my stories. This “due diligence” would immediately disqualify me, as the stories I write are almost all off-limits and qualify as taboo at mainstream or traditional newspapers and magazines.
What I did not understand was just how disrespectful of transcendental thinking consumer culture is, and how it can turn the search for human and esthetic discoveries into an endless series of economic transactions.
So much we’ve already forgotten, which is one reason to be grateful for David Zweig’s Abundance of Caution. It chronicles the excuses for not opening schools from the beginning, almost day by day, and explodes every myth along the way.
Were School Windows Really Sealed Shut? Read Journal Article
