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Writing & Naming: the Medicine of Acquiring Knowledge
Through the work of writing, I have learned first and foremost that nothing is what it tells us it is, because there is always another level, another way to play at naming, with reality, to bend...
View ArticleHubble Ultra Deep Field Rendered in 3D, Shows Shape of Universe (video)
The deepest image ever taken of the universe, using the ultra-powerful Hubble Space Telescope, known as the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, shows there to be 100 billion galaxies in the universe, some...
View ArticleIn Defense of the Book, in All its Forms
Today is the Day of the Book, in part spurred by the urge to recognize two of the great progenitors of modern literature, William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, who both died on 23...
View ArticleE.J. Dionne Calls for Politics of Conscience in Villanova Speech
In a speech to a packed room at Villanova University, during the university’s three-day celebration of the legacy and work of St. Thomas of Villanova —a celebration that includes scholarly...
View ArticleChuck Hagel Calls for Good-faith and Good-will in Public Service
“Every variation of public service, including elective office, should be anchored by one complete and overriding truth and objective—to make a better world.” — Chuck Hagel The former Republican...
View ArticleStewart-Colbert Rally Draws Hundreds of Thousands to DC (video)
“If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.” — Jon Stewart, 30 October 2010, on the National Mall The Rally to Restore Sanity (and/or Fear), hosted by superstar comic news anchors Jon Stewart and...
View ArticlePost-2010 Redistricting Could Distort Political Landscape
The United States midterm Congressional elections, which include votes for state-level executive and legislative officials, will determine how the electoral map might be redrawn for the next 10 years,...
View ArticleObama Consistent in Support for Egypt Reform
It has recently become fashionable to say the US is not expressing a consistent policy on Egypt, that the policy has been changing every day or is noncommittal. This is patently untrue and distorts...
View ArticleNew ‘Discussion Paradigm’ Emerging in Egyptian Power Struggle
The new expression of political authority in Egypt is beginning to unfold, even as Hosni Mubarak and Omar Suleiman refuse to cede power to the people. Whether credible or not, the regime’s mounting...
View ArticleRupert Murdoch’s Media Empire Under FBI Investigation
News Corp., the New York-based multinational media conglomerate whose majority shareholder is the controversial billionaire Rupert Murdoch, is now facing an FBI investigation for illegal activity in...
View Article9/11 Should Be a Day of National Reflection & Reaffirmation
The four coordinated hijackings, resulting in three deliberate attacks and one downed passenger jet, took 2,977 innocent lives and sowed fear and dismay across the world. They were acts of...
View Article‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Goes into the Dustbin of History (video)
Today, the 20th of September, 2011, the discriminatory US military policy known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”, which required thousands of gay personnel to serve their country while keeping their private...
View ArticleWe Need to Occupy Our Democracy
Robert Reich explains how big money is taking over the privileges of democratic rights, to the exclusion of ordinary people, and to the detriment of citizens who seek to exercise their basic civil...
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Let’s Elevate Teachers to Build a Better Future
Good teaching builds a healthy, vibrant future for our families, our communities, and our democracy The Climate There is a culture war taking place in the policy arena surrounding our education...
View ArticleThe Creative Approach, the Other Evolving
The creative approach to language, the expressive urge, the impact of a whim to let the unseen meaning come to be seen, come into the light: to write creatively, one must know how to think without the...
View ArticleExtremely Vital and Incredibly Intimate
Watching the reading of the names, at the World Trade Center site, now sacred ground for millions of people, it is clear that there are many legacies of the experience of September 11, 2001. On that...
View ArticleWorking Together Makes Us Free: Inauguration 2013
The year is 2013. The world did not come to an end in the last month of 2012, as so many had feared. Cynicism and existential terror have not won the future. It is Martin Luther King Day, three weeks...
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50 Years Later, King’s Dream Pushes On
When the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his world-altering “I have a dream” speech to the March on Washington, on August 28, 1963, he spoke the creed and fiber of a diverse and...
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Facebook Privacy Changes Violate Basic Rights
There are many ways in which Facebook can be said to be innovative. It is a product of value to users across the world. And it deserves to make money from selling ads, as other media properties do....
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The 11th of September, 299 Years Later
The date was September 11. The year was 1714. The city of Barcelona was the last redoubt in the War of Spanish Succession. The armies of the Bourbon dynasty were inside the city. On that day,...
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