We must always tell what we see.  Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see. Charles Peguy Ignorance and apathy feed on each other. “Don’t worry about it, everything will be okay” is what you tell a child to soften the pain of loss. It is...

 The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns. It has created enormous cities, has greatly increased the urban population as compared with the rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just...

 ‘What is now proved was once only imagin’d.’   William BlakeMadness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty.  Friedrich NietzscheMan stands face to face with the irrational.  He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason.  The absurd is born of...

 [Danny Dravot is the central figure in The Man Who Would Be King based on the Rudyard Kipling story. He is initially successful, but his hubris and desire for power eventually lead to his downfall.] This is “probably not” Trump’s Danny Dravot moment. The MAGA...

 Short of genius a rich man cannot imagine poverty.  Charles PeguyMoney is like oxygen. You need it to survive in the modern world but too much or too little will kill you. Too little oxygen (hypoxemia) causes headache, difficulty breathing and rapid heart rate. Isn’t...

 Some sixty years ago I was invited to a competition sponsored by the Bank of America for pending high school graduates. We were directed to read The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster and to prepare for questions and discussions. The Machine Stops was published in 1909...

 Is it too late to stop Donald Trump from destroying America? The litany of executive orders, shut down of departments and agencies, firing of government employees, challenging of judges, elimination of funding for colleges, media, science and the arts is the result...

 I am so far quite unable to justify one of my central convictions: that, even if it were possible to make all men happy by an operation or a drug that would stultify their development, this would somehow be an impious crime. This conviction is ultimately rooted In...

 I walked in and sat down and they gave me a piece of paper, said, "Kid, see the psychiatrist, room 604." And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill, I mean, I wanna—I wanna kill. Kill. I wan—I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my...

 “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult...

 From President Reagan’s farewell address to the nation 1-11-89:The past few days when I've been at that window upstairs, I've thought a bit of the “shining city upon a hill.” The phrase comes from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What...