“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 [...]
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 [...]
Have you ever wondered why we as a people are so unresponsive to the environmental crisis? Given the magnitude of the dangers, it seems counter-intuitive that most people would be so blasé. Perhaps the key to understanding this is to focus less on what people say they think and more on the constructs that underlie [...]
Just like a character in a Greek tragedy, we have been marching blindly towards our doom. And a lot like Oedipus, we have been blind to the steps we could be taking to save ourselves from doom–like putting common need above personal greed.
Of course, it takes a lot of idealism to do that, [...]
