Some years back I was dealing with the woke claim that a transwoman is a woman, PERIOD, and trying to find a way to get through the mindless chant and reach the intelligence it suppressed. One of the things this … Read more
One of the most important research projects for me personally, perhaps the most important, is better understanding perceptions about “place” within many indigenous peoples’ cultures. Over and over we hear traditional indigenous peoples say they and the place wherein they … Read more
This essay analyzes hotly contested issues within the contemporary American Pagan community. The arguments creating such discord rely on holding two contradictory positions at the same time. First, gender is socially, not biologically, defined. The second is there are … Read more
People frequently discuss fascism in America today, in no small part because we now have a significant fascist movement in this country. But many different groups use the term in many different ways. Most basically, some call it “right wing” … Read more
As we observe the ten year anniversary of the Iraq War we should not forget those who opposed this catastrophic and evil action. Not a single terrorist on 9-11 was Iraqi and it has become clear to all interested in … Read more
Some otherwise sympathetic readers will suspect my description of Sacred amounts to wishful thinking. The world really is meaningless. Ultimately everything is simply an object in relation to other objects. So it seems to many minds thoroughly socialized by the … Read more
Neoconservatism has a complex parentage, partly home grown and even more European. It originally grew out of tensions internal to many liberals who made up a crucial part of the Democratic coalition Franklin Roosevelt had created, a coalition that had … Read more
Albert Einstein was asked by a friend “Do you believe that absolutely everything can be expressed scientifically?” Einstein answered “Yes, it would be possible. But it would make no sense. It would be description without meaning – … Read more
Words like “left” and “right” no longer have any
clear meaning. But if there is a central
theme, historically, people “on the left” have focused on issues of inequality
of power. This has been interpreted in many ways, sometimes contradictorily,
… Read more
Our community is divided over issues of sex and gender, often to the point of truly poisonous communications directed towards those with other points of view. In a way this division seems strange. Sex is a biological category. Gender is … Read more