I’ll begin with a personal anecdote. Back in 1979 I was on sabbatical in London. My project was to study a piece of the Labor Party’s legislation called the Community…
If anybody paid attention to what I write about religion they might wonder why I seem to have a persistent interest in evangelism, particularly as practiced by missionaries who target…
Maybe you saw and heard it, too. There’s a good chance you did; every other TV channel had some sort of 9-11 progamming (except the shopping channels of course—Bush told…
Once, long ago, I considered going the way of St. Francis of Assisi or Ignatius Loyola, forsaking the trappings of a wealthy and privileged life (as if I really had…
[Note: This piece is Part II of The Sustainability of Shangri-La] “We need a balanced approach,” to fixing our economic problems we heard the President saying time and again in…
With every piece of compromised-to-surrender policy, the latest the “OK, I’ll grab my ankles and be your bitch if you save us from default” deal he gave weepy John Boehner,…
Another July 4 has gone into the books, the flags are rolled up, fireworks debris swept up, the cheers of “we’re No. 1,” roars of military flyovers and the hyperbolic…
Remember that “freedom fries” business and all the catcalls at the “froggies” for not jumping in on Bush’s (now Obama’s) stupid, useless, economy-busting wars? Have those impetuous Americaines delivered them…
Earlier this year I was invited to give a public lecture at the Department of Construction and Environment of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The topic they wanted to hear…
I’m ashamed of this hypocritical country. I just finished watching the Inquisition and immolation of Anthony Weiner, a media reveille for hypocrites for a guy who was foolish enough fall…