The leader of the country with the largest military and the most nuclear weapons has threatened to commit genocide tonight. He said, "A whole civilization will die tonight". Let there be no mistake, if this comes to pass, it is the death of two civilizations. If the western
Jane Austen tells us that even in the best of circumstances, "happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance". Now imagine that the government that you have sworn to serve and risk your life for decides that you have no chance of happiness because they are going
Mark Twain best expressed the feelings I had when I saw MTG express outrage to Trump's threats to Iran. I love that she didn't just call out Trump but also all of his enablers. And then, to top it off, she went on to show concern
Today's Easter Prayer comes to us from W.E.B. DuBois who asked "The good Lord to deliver us from a world where everybody looks like his neighbor and thinks like his neighbor and is like his neighbor".
With the astronauts still days away from reaching the moon, we are already getting fantastic pictures of our home planet. As with every picture of the Earth from space, we see what a fragile, interconnected planet we are living on. Yet, in our short-sighted and selfish actions we are
"Reporters are heroes of our time", for without them we would not know truth and without truth there is no informed democracy. Reading about Shelly Kittleson is a humbling experience as we realize just how much some of our fellow humans are willing to risk to keep us
In his book, Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. describes the feelings of a character who is going out in public for the first time, dressed as a woman. He writes, "He felt uninhibited and beautiful and lovable and suddenly free". These are feelings we should want all
I understand where Virginia Woolf was coming from when she wrote that "Good books are desirable..., even if [the authors] show every variety of depravity". I have no doubt that every single author I quote has some aspects of their character that I would reject in real life
According to her daughter, Marie Curie was not a fan of putting students into traditional school settings. She thought it was "barbarous...to steal innumerable sterile 'hours of attendance' from them at a age where they should be running free" Now in Bolivia they have mandated
Paraphrasing Thoreau is the best way to describe Pete Hegseth: "You talk of heaven but you disgrace the Earth". Today's Philadelphia Inquirer had a story with very mellow headline: "Hegseth's assertive faith breaks norms, critics say". But as we read the story
At the same time Charles Darwin was writing his The Descent of Man, Mikhail Bakunin was proudly telling us that what set our first ancestors apart from other animals was our Power to Think and our Desire to Rebel. These two defining traits have never been needed more. Look at
Don't just go out to protest today and then come home thinking that you accomplished something. Instead, use these gatherings to make connections with like-minded groups and individuals. At the end of the day, make sure you have something to turn your energies to, a distinctly defined