Coming back to the United States from Europe is always hard for me. There seems to be something different about Europe that I am missing in the U.S. Europe feels more like home. There is more of a social contract …
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After Corrupt Trump was elected, I was under shock. How could people vote for this man? He stands for everything I dislike – and seems to clearly violate American values (not to mention norms and laws). I held on to …
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When we think about democracy, we usually think of a model for the government, how a country is run. Maybe that’s a mistake. Maybe this is partly why the U.S. experiment is now being tested in a way it has …
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There’s been some discussion on social media about what happened at UC Berkeley last week. What I saw ranged from condemnation to support and warning the other side that they’ll play “into the hands of the fascists.” The discussions I …
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One of the things that I find so attractive about David Morris’ book The Evil Hours is his reintroduction of the moral dimension to PTS – posttraumatic stress. According to him, the historical call to introduce a diagnosis like PTSD …
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I decided to let my hair grow longer. Except for a few years, most recently over 20 years ago, my hair has been short, sometimes very short. More recently, I had already started letting it grow a little bit, so …
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