It seems to be a thing – with people younger than me, anyway – to refer to one’s circle of close peers as a ‘tribe’. I can’t bring myself...

It's late October 2024, and I find myself in New England on a bright Sunday morning, in a vast parking lot next to Gillette Stadium,...

There is a generous bucket of concepts that, when grasped, explain damn near everything about human beings. We are naturally tribal -...

Hopefully it has been made abundantly, painstakingly clear that this multidisciplinary exploration of authoritarian thought and behavior...

Author/political analyst Thom Hartmann concurs with the idea that democracy isn’t just one of many human social governance models sussed...

Nitpicking the science – and, while we’re at it, the inconsistencies – of the sci-fi that we love is the fanboy’s great joy. And because...

Money is the root of all evil, we are told, and that case is not hard to make. Almost any crime one person commits against another is...

Much has been made of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s flip-floppy attitude toward Supreme Justice confirmations. When a Democrat...

The Kentucky Kernel was a powerful, even transformative experience for me. Two years as a staffer there set my course in life. Though I...

Def Leppard. The boys from Sheffield had experienced their meteoric rise during the years I was a young parent and still in the church –...

90125 had revived Yes from cold, grim death – not only keeping them alive, but supercharging with more energy and spectrum than they’d...

This one, like Nik Kershaw and Mr. Mister, might baffle and even disappoint many of my musician friends. But in 1986, I was living alone...

In 1982, I became a daddy with the birth of my son Steve. And a new phase of musical life began. I might quibble over my parents’...

Throughout the Sixties, I was growing up in Garden Springs, a suburb of west Lexington, Kentucky – in a church-music-only home. During...

Often have we put forth the premise that human beings are biologically predisposed to live in community – that we are social beings,...

Every now and then, you’ll hear a magnificent song you’ve never heard before – on the radio, maybe, or in a friend’s car – and be blown...

I As far back as his memory went, Arlan Mynx had longed to rule the world. In grade school, this longing manifested in a dramatic...

Among the many bequests of Isaac Asimov to the human conversation was his take on the robot – its nature and role. Emerging in science...

When I was young, growing up in a Fundamentalist/Evangelical household, I was very explicitly indoctrinated into the faith from birth....

I The Dyje River rivaled the sky for blue as the helicopter swept out over an open field a mile or so east of Dolní Vĕstonice. Its...