ChatGPT may disagree, but artificial human intelligence continues to be a greater threat to our way of life than AI, while the real thing remains the best antidote to the potential toxicity of both...

03 February, 2023

We remember three good citizens (and then three more) who left us in body in 2022, but not in spirit, as well as the works and inspiration they left behind for us to build on...

12 January, 2023

Fall is the time when high school and college graduates return to their almae matres and come together to share what they've learned and hope for. The recent elections felt something like a homecoming on the political and existential front: are they?...

10 January, 2023

January 6th has become a day that will live in infamy, but thanks to the man who uttered those words about the first such occasion, there's another, better reason to remember and act on it...

04 January, 2023

Merriam-Webster chose "gaslighting" as theirs, but to us, this was the year when our country finally started cooking with gas again, and "democracy" had to be the word for that...

13 December, 2022

If love of it is, as the Bible says, "the root of all evil," what does it mean that we as a nation value money so much? And what might we choose as our cultural currency instead?...

09 December, 2022

All across America, Trump-backed candidates did something last month he's never been able to do himself--give a concession speech. And the other concessions generated in his name are getting stale...

05 December, 2022

As the first third week in November approaches in relative peace and hope, we express our thanks to the many Americans of many kinds who, in many ways, made it so...

18 November, 2022

Mental health has always been a problem for a segment of Americans.  The pandemic, political polarization, and now inflation have increased the size of that segment substantially, turning what Freud called the "oceanic experience" of oneness into relentless waves of PTSD...

02 November, 2022

The campaigns of individual candidates often have theme songs; this year's midterms seem to have a theme *album* and *film,* Talking Heads 1984 live opus, "Stop Making Sense"...

01 November, 2022
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