Slouching towards bliss
A few years ago, I came across this sentence, which was attributed to the US Army Ranger Handbook: “The two greatest general threats to survival … Read more
Society
What a strange species we are
Citizenship
In a recent edition of “The New Yorker,” Jill Lepore offers this opinion on taxes: “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, … Read more
Thinking for oneself
A recent op-ed piece in the New York Times discusses the dangers of social media to our political system. Several sentences in the piece got … Read more
A letter to a climate change denier
Here is a letter-to-the editor I wrote earlier this year to a magazine to which I subscribe. My letter was in response to a letter … Read more
More on happiness
A few days ago I posted a quote from Emerson about happiness. I want to elaborate on the idea of happiness and argue that it … Read more
Environmentalism, sustainability, and all that
A great quote by the late Charles Bowden: “Environmentalism is an upper-middle-class white movement aimed at absolution and preserving a lifestyle with a Volvo.” To … Read more
An equation of time
Over the years, particularly as those years remaining to me irreversibly slip away, I have come to understand the equation T=L, Time equals Life. Compared … Read more