I recently attended a Winter Solstice celebration here in Northern California. Held at a local community center, it was well attended by an enthusiastic crowd. A first glance indicated a growing and healthy NeoPagan community. A second glance was not as reassuring. Every new spiritual movement faces the challenge of enabling people unfamiliar with it…

The photograph on the right is of a Moslem suicide bomber, holding a Koran. But the photograph on the left is of US soldiers holding a Bible. The similarity is not accidental. All see themselves as warriors for God. Jason Leopold of the Baltimore Chronicle has written a chilling story, chilling at least for anyone…

The obvious failings of our court system have encouraged some free market theorists to support binding arbitration a more efficient alternative. In doing so many of the greates failings of classical liberal thought come to a head: its lack of awareness that public values exist, its lack of a real theory of power, its equating…

For me, one of the most depressing aspects of the past seven years is that it seems so many Americans forgot what they learned in the 60s, and many of those born since did not learn from our experience. In all too many cases my generation failed miserably in educating our young. Now they are…

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