Time to Disavow Biden
There was a time when my support for Joe Biden extended beyond the need to find someone, anyone, half-decent and honest to replace the walking, scheming, immoral and unprincipled catastrophe that is Trump, to the hope that the new president would deliver both a reckoning to those who did damage and a hard push to […]
Humans: Extinction by Choice
The earth and human life are in mortal peril. We are staring down the barrel of a loaded gun, the climate crisis. We cannot escape it, an especially depressing thought when one considers the choices we continue to make ensuring that we won’t. Background In the mid-1970s, I taught history as an advanced graduate student […]
Musings on Misinformation
‘Snake oil’ conjures a product and a time that we are all happy to have behind us, something we are privileged to avoid. Now, when we walk into an American supermarket of virtually any size and in virtually any place, we enjoy the assurance that there is no ‘snake oil’ on the shelves and thus […]