The Well Run Dry

It can be devilishly easy to wreck a culture, and devilishly hard to clean it up afterward.  If you want to wreck a culture, it helps to be...

The United States is a selectively forgetful nation, thanks to the mainstream media in this country. We are trained to remember everyt...

Once again, I am down in So. Cal. for Christmas. This time, I traveled by different means than I normally use. Heretofore, I had alway...

This past week, the New York Times ran a front page piece titled, “Bleak Portrait of Poverty is Off the Mark, Experts Say.” It was ba...

(Before I start, I'd like to welcome Meg O'Halloran to my blog. Thanks for your readership! Also, a belated welcome to those wh...

I was driving home from work this evening (only a week left to go before I won't have to do that again!), and found myself stuck in a...

Over the last year or so, I've almost stopped following the mainstream news. Occasionally I scan newspaper headlines, but that's...

I'll start this post with an illustration. Lasers are interesting devices. The word “laser” is actually an acronym formed from the ...

I won't have very much time on the weekends for deep, analytical posts for a while. The summer school session has just started and I ...

This will be a short post – my schedule has suddenly become much busier. I will say, though, that I have some good interviews lined up, ...

This is not the land that was promised me, Even as far as my eyes can see... – Not The Land , Derek Webb There is a series of articl...

One night last week, I had a work-related evening appointment which lasted until nearly 9 PM. I wasn't thrilled about having to fix m...

On Ran Prieur's website, there is a link to an online article from the May 2010 issue of Reason Magazine , titled, “ Disaster Utopi...