Seventy-two years today, Auschwitz was liberated. Two years ago, I visited the memorial sites in Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau. The images from that visit are haunting me during this time of a resurgence of the fascist populism that ended up with …
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The last week has been very hard for me. Not only does the President-elect of the United States espouse values that are not only contrary to the values I treasure but that I believe are dangerous for US democracy. There …
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I could list lots of theoretical reasons for my support of a Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) but a lot of others have done this already, possibly much better than I could (for example here, lots more here, or listen to …
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I am changing things around, so this post is now here. Hopefully, it will have brought you there already but if not, please click that link!
Today is my birthday. I am now two years away from 50. Maybe that’s partly why the birthday blues hit me so hard. Combine that with the recent health issues and I have been deeply reminded of my mortality. And …
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“That is why self-justification is more powerful and more dangerous than the explicit lie. It allows people to convince themselves that what they did was the best thing they could have done. In fact, come to think of it, it …
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