diversity

A curiously and spuriously Western idea has crept into academia, and from there, into civil society and politics. Having ruthlessly dominated and colonized Africa and Asia under the guise of…

At bottom, “localism is the belief that communities can and should find solutions to their own particular problems, within their own particular contexts.” The seeming irrefutability of this idea is…

After a fine conversation, a friend sent me this quote: “Once severed from the future the past becomes an insignificant parade of trivial events no longer organic, no longer potent…

The basic assumptions that a speaker or writer holds are often enfolded in an offhanded remark, asides of such conventional wisdom that their truth seems indisputable. These are precisely the…

There is a great deal of confusion, even and perhaps especially among philosophers, about diversity and wholeness. In a world being torn apart by fragmentation and conflict between peoples and…

A flock of small birds lands in the shallows, and a few begin furiously beating their wings in the water. More join in, and suddenly there are a dozen birds…

World News – It is flat out amazing to me how PC everyone has become.  You watch the old show like Cheers or Married with Children and no one cared…

Fog enshrouds the small town as I enter the mountain community from the valley below. With a few hundred meters more elevation, the fog clears, though the skies remain cloudy.…