At a recent appearance at an Obama Foundation Town Hall in Berlin, former US president Barack Obama expressed concerns that American progressives are too fixated on purity and too unwilling to work within the existing system to solve problems."One of the things I do worry
The path to enlightenment is the process of becoming clearly aware of all the different aspects of the way you operate inside, which enables you to relate to life as it's actually appearing instead of through the filters of old conditioned mental habits. The path
Our predicament is simple to describe.Since the dawn of civilization, powerful individuals have controlled the stories people tell themselves about who they are, who's in charge, how a good citizen behaves, what groups should be loved, what groups should be hated, and what's really going
All the old ideas for uprooting the status quo have failed. I point this out not to depress people, but to persuade them to stop twisting on locked doorknobs. The old ideas don't work, so we need new ones.The political process has failed. Capitalism has
I've been making a conscious effort to put out more poems and short stories of increasing quality alongside my usual output of essays on politics and the media. Here are seven reasons why: 1. There are things you can say with art that you can't say
After struggling against our own self-destructive tendencies throughout the entirety of recorded history, humanity is now at a point where that struggle is probably going to be resolved, one way or another, within the lifetime of most people reading this.The movie about this struggle has
A politician can run a flawless campaign, say all the right things from a place of authenticity, hold wildly popular positions and an impeccable public record, but if they say things which upset the powerful, the narrative can be reshaped to paint them as crazy,
Anti-establishment movements are a mess. Whether they're left-wing or right-wing, whether they're statist or anarchist, whether they're organized or decentralized, whether they place emphasis on official or unofficial narratives, any circle of people who are interested in opposing the status quo on a deep, meaningful
When even the Washington Post is saying your Russiagate article is bad journalism, your Russiagate article is really, really bad journalism.In an article titled "The Guardian offered a bombshell story about Paul Manafort. It still hasn’t detonated.", WaPo writer Pul Farhi draws attention to the
Hi. I'm sorry to my regular readers for not writing any articles in the last couple of days; I've just been staring transfixed at the fallout from the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, and the words which normally come bubbling up on their own