“Change we can believe in” is a wonderful and effective phrase. In the giddy days before and after the election, the phrase seemed to promise that an Obama administration would bring needed change, steering our nation off the rutted road of corruption and driving it onto an environmentally friendly superhighway of wisdom. It all felt [...]
Someone has to say it.
We deserve a better class of people to be our upper class.
Everything in nature has a purpose—so much so that things that do not serve a purpose do not last. So what is the purpose of the upper class?
There was a time when it [...]
Surely every progressive knows someone who spouts out odious and hateful political ideas but who is warm, friendly, and engaging in personal life.
Of course, there are also ornery people with enlightened politics. This raises the question of whether foul progressives and amiable regressives are two versions of the same thing…or whether the similarity between [...]
A friend remarked a little while back that being a philosophy teacher is an especially easy job. “How so,” I asked? He said because I have lots of free time. I laughed and answered that being a philosopher means I almost never have a moment free. I am thinking all the [...]
I had a particularly energizing artistic experience this past weekend. My friend, Ethan Fisher, is a gifted poet, and we often perform together. Ethan reads his poetry while I improvise guitar textures behind him. We have been doing it for years and have even done a handful of radio shows, once even “filling out the [...]
