Orwell’s Ghost Rises–Again
If we insist on holding our leaders to unreasonable standards of perfection, we will place our fate in the hands of two-dimensional caricatures who lack both the wisdom and the experience to lead.
View ArticleCremation vs. Burial: Preserving Human Dignity in Life and Death
In contrast to popular misconceptions, cremation is neither environmental nor dignified. Burial in the earth reaffirms the eternal cycle of creation, birth and rebirth, passage and transition. It...
View ArticleIdentity Politics Continues to Spread Confusion
Airplane armrests: the next battleground in the gender war?
View ArticleTaco Me Out to the ball Game
Certainly, there are many more substantial stories in the headlines than baseball and tacos. But the refinement we bring to our little conversations helps fashion the quality of our discussions about...
View ArticleThe Appearance of Propriety
What the Kavanaugh imbroglio teaches us about dignity and justice
View ArticleThe Cost of Indifference
How progressive innovation gave rise to discord and vigilantism
View ArticleDon’t Become the Stranger in the Mirror
Our phones and computers can be gateways to inexhaustible knowledge and wisdom. Too often, however, they are distractions from reality, blurring the lines between the world as it is and the world as we...
View ArticleThe Peril of Prejudice: How to be Wrong, even When you’re Right
So let’s get this straight: the owner credits herself with heroism for making herself uncomfortable by asking Huckabee Sanders to leave thereby sparing her employees discomfort by refusing service to...
View ArticleDon’t Forget to Remember
It’s downright shameful that most of us don’t give more than a passing thought to Memorial Day. What could be more important than remembering the principles of freedom and those who sacrificed to...
View ArticleJerusalem Day
As long as we remember all Jerusalem stands for, we will carry her in our hearts and in our minds wherever we go, wherever we are
View ArticleKaepernick 1, Cuban 0
To ignore or negate the extraordinary achievements of this country is the most reprehensible expression of ingratitude.
View ArticleIntellectual Integrity’s Last Stand
If you’re searching for ethical leadership, first look in the mirror
View ArticleDo you Really Know What You Believe?
Only when we understand the other side of the argument can we truly understand our own.
View ArticleChanukah: The ORIGINAL Cancel Culture
Resist the subversion of darkness in the name of enlightenment
View ArticleThe Ethics of Epidemic: 5 Practical Lessons from the Coronavirus Outbreak
We need more than soap and water to stay clean. We need genuine commitment to a life of ethical idealism.
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