Despite what my conservative friends say, I actually cleave to few radical notions, but one idea that they and their moderate brethren would consider pretty offensive follows. If we are to survive as a nation, as an economy, as a civilization, perhaps even as a species, we need to have an almost complete reversal in [...]
by Special Correspondent T.S. DeHaviland
Alan Greenspan, speaking on NPR’s occasional segment “The Long View” late last year, again perpetuated the dangerous myth that the gap between the rich and poor in this country is due to a lack of highly educated and highly skilled workers. There is no doubt that we lack them, of course: [...]
by Special Correspondent T.S. DeHaviland
As the Christmas spending season draws to a close, I encourage all of you to continue to do your patriotic duty and shop, just like the president told you to back in the latter part of 2001. We can’t have this administration’s otherwise stellar legacy be besmirched by a late-term recession, [...]
Americans love to get their bobby-soxers in a rumble; we like nostalgia at a penny a pound; we
blush Coke Red and ware Pepsi Blue: America the pre-packaged in sanitary cello fain for your
projection. Freud was a dalliance, but we prefer numbers, have left our black turtlenex in the
trunk of the Lincoln, have rounded forced and [...]
To a large degree, the war in Iraq is an imaginary war. Truly and tragically, it is causing literal suffering for the tens of thousands of Americans wounded or killed and the millions of Iraqis killed, wounded, or made refugees. But the purpose of this war, its results and its goals, exist largely inside the [...]
In his book God’s Universe, the astrophysicist Owen Gingerich takes the biologist E.O. Wilson to task for placing humankind within natural processes and not as their end. If it’s a leap for Wilson to say that man is not nature’s purpose, then it’s as much of a leap–or more–for Gingerich to make the connection between [...]
I’ve been thinking a whole lot lately about the old adage “The perfect is the enemy of the good.” The historian of religion Karen Armstrong would say that this saying is an indication of the tension between mythos and logos—the eternal ideal vs. the practical real.
And while I’m sure that’s [...]