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...

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...

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

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

I’m originally from Kentucky, though these days I live just across the river in Indiana, and I am still sufficiently bound to the...

Through many of my childhood years, a deep dread lurked in the back of my brain, prompted by Saturday afternoon movies and an assortment...

Surrounded by hissing Gorn on the horizon, we huddled behind the thermocrete battlements, phasers and photon grenades at the ready as the...

Star Wars, Star Trek, and Macroeconomic Theory Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel, in a conversation with New York...

Dr. Tony Campolo has made a side career of speaking to multinational corporations, urging them to Do the Right Thing. And he puts...

Dr. Tony Campolo’s warning – that the Moral Majority would form an alliance with the political far Right and attempt to get a...

Partisanism is a binge of subjective gluttony. It clusters together those who already agree, absolving them of the rigors of validation,...

Homo sapiens is the most social of species. Not only do we not live in isolation, as so many creatures of the earth do, we fine-tune our...

In 1981, I was in the second year of my first round of college, and I worked for the campus newspaper. That was a bigger deal than it...

At this writing – in October 2023 – the US House of Representatives is without a Speaker. This situation was realized in the course of an...

A recent event in Ohio underscores a key feature of the growing conflict in the West today, as democracy struggles to push back against...

Maj. Chet Kinsman of the US Aerospace Force is aboard a space station, chatting with industrialist Ted Dreyer, whose tech corporation has...