A friend asked me who I supported for President. She knew it would be either Clinton or Obama. As things now stand I would vote for a box turtle for President over any likely Republican candidate. But why Obama and not Clinton? Here’s why. 1. Hillary is too close to the defense industry – like…

This post fulfills a promise I made in the Solstice post below. The extraordinary and disturbing entry of religion into American politics over the past few decades raises an important question for all people with a spiritual commitment: how should their spiritual practice most effectively and appropriately influence their lives as citizens. As citizens we…

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…

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