Quietly in the background of my life over the last year and a half or so, I've been working with volunteers to whom I am profoundly grate...

If the soul speaks, then alas it is not the soul that speaks. - Friedrich Schiller, German poet and philosopher For me, this was a breakt...

In one of my professional roles, Academic Dean of an educational institute, I have the great privilege of interviewing young applicants (...

The first quote in my 240-page commonplace book (see the first blog entry above) is this. If you wish to proceed into the infinite, explo...

I think I was the only adult American who didn’t know who Michael Jordan is when the documentary, Last Dance came out. I had heard the na...

“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them...

A couple of years ago, I wrote an article called "How America Made Me White." I just got around to rereading it in the light of recent an...

History churns up many times like these – times when a deep and persistent injustice is widely perceived and met by a singular focus and ...

Glaring and great injustice elicits glaring and great virtue - but also, alas, glaring and cheap virtue. How can you distinguish between ...

Like millions of other Americans, I have strong feelings about what is going on in our country today as I ponder the death of one of my f...

When I was 21 give or take a year or two, I heard of something called “a commonplace book”. This was essentially a notebook that was carr...

Has anyone done the math - or are we just reacting; and if we are, have we (to adulterate a fashionable expression in progressive circles) “

With freedom and representation to save, Many who cared paid them forward from their graves; To choose their own leaders, to vote, to be ...

Nigel Farage is a political hero. In the books that shall be written about how the United Kingdom became again a self-determined, democra...

Like the crack in the Liberty Bell, a symbol of America’s founding idea, a crack in American society remains as a symbol of its founding sin

Many people who favorably view Donald Trump and politicians like him, talk up his “authenticity” or his “telling it as it is”. Even many ...

Democracy in the U.K. became defunct [when] parliament criminalized the implementation of the result of the Brexit referendum.

Imagine that I am a seafaring tyrant who has moored my galleon off a large island. Through my telescope, I see a healthy population creat...

It took me a couple of seconds to get Stephen Colbert’s joke line, “I don’t see race” when I first heard it. In the USA, the joke works b...

Jordan Peterson has broken the internet (again) with his Tweet that, “If confirmed, Kavanaugh should step down.” Many Peterson-favoring c...