(Part of a thread to share poems or poetry-adjacent writing, as discussed here .) We  cannot say how this cascading wreck  of complacent...

For the New Year, let’s recall two milestones on the Christian Right from the past year. One of the key architects of that movement, Pat...

This is to share and make a smallish comment about a jaw-droppingly powerful image that I've just seen, disseminated to my newsfeed by...

Counting my home in East Tennessee and a small summer cabin in Wisconsin in an old pasture where my Mom grew up, I have four Senators and...

“Ah, America. We saw it. We tipped it over, and then we sold it.” One of many unforgettable lines burned into my soul by this Laurie...

Just heard this new music on Sirius Radio’s Outlaw Country station. This is what music needs to be now. Thank you, Buddy and Julie! P.S....

I’m writing this note after reading a New York Times piece about Trump’s recent suggestion to combat coronavirus by “injecting” a form of...

Without strong Democratic leadership, without mass protest, and with the economy so disrupted that I become confused as to how strikes...

I don’t often recirculate comments from others here, but sometimes I make an exception, and I'm doing do so for this interview with Noam...

NOTE: I am publishing tomorrow, in October 2024, a note to link back to this article which has continuing relevance even though it first...

There isn’t much point in sending readers of this little blog to Reading Religion, the American Academy of Religion’s review portal—I...

Trump's friend and co-gangster Paul Manafort has received a 47 month sentence for multiple crimes. That's a slap on the wrist from a...

An Open Letter to Senator Corker, Senator Alexander, and Representative Duncan: When I talk to people who are less pessimistic than I am...

Starting in January, and continuing through Spring 2018, I will be at the University of Alberta in Edmonton as a Fulbright Research Chair...