Seven prominent national security whistleblowers Monday called for a number of wide-ranging reforms — including passage of the “Surveillance State Repeal Act,” which would repeal the USA Patriot Act — in an effort to restore the...
03 May 2015
How you see reality and how you respond to it, that’s who you are
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01 May 2015
Madison's Music: On Reading the First Amendment, a new book by Burt Neuborne, at first appears an unlikely work to serve much purpose today. Who wants to celebrate slave owner James Madison's view of freedom...
01 May 2015
This is big. A new civil rights era births itself in terrible pain.
Black men die, over and over. I can only hope that peace is the result, serious peace, bigger than new laws, bigger than better trained police — agape peace, you...
24 April 2015
Once again, a sci-fi flick is asking the burning question: Is romance possible between man and machine?
In 2013, Her made the prospect seem inviting, especially since the machine was represented by the warm (if...
23 April 2015
“Sir, you are an idiot.”
Wow, an insult wrapped in such old-fashioned politeness. I let the words hover and reach, as I always do, for peace: that is to say, for clarity, connection, common humanity.
Last week I raised the...
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