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Last October I heard Juan Enriquez give a stimulating talk on why national identity was a brand name loyalty to which could never taken for granted. I blogged about his talk here. The July/August issue of Orion has a wonderful article discussing the prospects for secession movements in the US. Exemplified by its three most…

The radical right rarely takes people on concerning the facts of an issue because so often the facts rebut their positions. Character assassination is so much more fun. The latest smear by those who thinking caring for the well being of others assaults their right to take what they want is that Al Gore is…

A 3700 mile drive gives a person a lot of time to think without much interruption. And that’s about the distance I drove from far upstate New York to my present landing in Sonoma County, California. Among all those thoughts came one that inspired this blog: the nature of American patriotism. Patriotism is usually treated…

What follows is an exchange with a man I knew since the sixties who was once a friend and might still become one again – who knows? We shared many good times. He later became a Neo-Conservative with whom I argued many times before our attack on Iraq. Out of respect for him, I have…
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