In 'The Trouble with Reality' media analyst Brooke Gladstone examines what she calls an "epic existential battle" over reality
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Book Review: ‘Confessions of a Heretic’ by Roger Scruton
The English philosopher and aesthete reminds thinking people – and especially liberals – that despite rampant know-nothingism on today's political right wing, the conservative movement has always had an intellectual foundation.
Read More »SXSW Music Festival 2017: Monday, March 13 (Austin, TX)
SuperGlu and Magic Island helped kickstart the first day of SXSW Music Festival 2017 in Austin, Texas.
Read More »Thoughts on Divinity, Forgiveness, Bernie, and Trump
I am in a divine struggle within, how to speak the truth while loving and forgiving?
Read More »Our Juba Zula
In the beginning they manufactured the supreme lie, an enabling lie, an empowering lie – A sanctioning lie - a gargantuan lie. They fed themselves balm that we were less than human and their God would sanction whatever they dealt to us for their own enhancements. This gave the lie the guise of having been mandated from the Creator of heaven and therefore an empowering lie that dehumanized me and my-kind – The Lie of a Hundred Generations.
Read More »While Trump Distracts, White Nationalism Becomes More and More Emboldened
While POTUS distracts with false claims of wiretapping, white nationalists continue to creep into the open air. It's been 50 days. What happens in the next four years?
Read More »U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions: Private Prisons Are Back in Business with BOP
The idea that a corporation should ever profit from warehousing humans still remains beyond offensive and should not be tolerated in a civil and just society.
Read More »Trump Inherited a Mess? A Presidential Walk-Through Proposal
The outgoing president and the new president will hold a brief joint news conference to publicly acknowledge a document that details the condition of the country at the time of the transfer of leadership – no more bullshit.
Read More »New Legislation Would Abolish Department of Education by End of 2018
Will the U.S. Dept. of Education vanish by the end of next year under Devos?
Read More »Distorted History in ‘Bel Canto’ from Lyric Opera of Chicago
Why does the opera call these educated and thoughtful Peruvian revolutionaries "terrorists"?
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