Recent Blog Entries:
Can A Fire Be Lit? The Possible End of An Era
"Can A Fire Be Lit?" A Series is about to Begin
Political Communication is an Art Form, Like Composing Symphonies
Are the Liberal Leanings of Gov't Bureaucrats an Explanation of the IRS Scandal?
Scandal in a Dishonest Age: What's to be Believed about the I.R.S. "Scandal"
Benghazi Talk: Call It Out for What It Is
Minds Not of a Piece: The GOP and "Empathy"
Compilation of Links to All the “Swinging for the Fences” Entries So Far
The Report on Torture and a Glimpse of the Dark Spirit
Swinging for the Fences: What It Means to Say a "Sick and Broken Spirit" is Damaging America
All Good Things Should Last, Say I
What's Real? Facts, Constructions, and Reality
Inevitability versus Contingency in the Course of History
Swinging for the Fences: Brokenness Transmitted from Level to Level --II
If These Are the Early Stages of Climate Change
Swinging for the Fences: Brokenness Transmitted from Level to Level --I
Swinging for the Fences: Brokenness as Fragmentation II-- Social Atoms in the Market
Powers that Like "Sin" Confined to Small, Private Matters
If You Want to Help Me Get My Message Out, Here's an Easy Way
The Earth Has Begun to Express Her Distress
Swinging for the Fences: Wholeness's House Has Many Mansions
New Statement (Proposed) for the NSB Front Page
Swinging for the Fences: Synergy and Viability as Dimensions of Wholeness
The Fable of the Magnet, by Oscar Wilde
Swinging for the Fences: The Creation of Wholeness is What Life Tends to Do
That "Sick and Broken Spirit": Excerpts from My Interview with Rob Kall
Swinging for the Fences: Natural Human Values Not Refuted by Cultural Diversity
The Republicans as a Hierarchical Society: I'm Interviewed by the Head of Opednews
Swinging for the Fences: The Fallacy of Dismissing 'Value' for Being 'Merely Subjective'
Beginning to Launch a New Political Strategy
Swinging for the Fences: Value Is Intrinsic to Life
Swinging for the Fences: Rounding the Turn
How Christian are the Republicans? A Sunday Sermon on Community According to Jesus
Swinging for the Fences: Transmission of Culture -- A Hen is an Egg's Way of Making Another Egg
The Most Shocking of Scalia's "Voting Rights Act" Remarks
Swinging for the Fences: Polarization in America Today
Swinging for the Fences: Polarization and the American Civil War
Swinging for the Fences: How the Market Shapes Our Destiny-- Skewed Menu, Suboptimal Diet
Why the Republican Party Demonized President Obama
Swinging for the Fences: The Parable of the Tribes--Step Three: Selection for the Ways of Power
Thinking About George W. Bush, Who So Darkened a Terrible Eight Year Period in American History
We're # 1: The GOP Boasts About American Greatness While They Degrade It
Problems in the Religion Are Symptoms of Something Deeper
Swinging for the Fences: Hunting for Very Big Game
Swinging for the Fences: The Transmission of Culture Through Time
Swinging for the Fences: Polarization as a Form of Cultural Breakdown
The Importance of Drawing the Line on Weapons of War
Swinging for the Fences: How the Market Economy Shapes Our Destiny
An Unwelcome Driver of Social Evolution: The Parable of the Tribes
Swinging for the Fences: The Fable of the Magnet
Swinging for the Fences: Please Join Me in this Bold New Effort
* Here's Another Piece of Mine on Op/Ed News: You Can Help Get It Momentum
* Check Out My Comment Today on the Washington Post
* Defining Deviancy Down: When Scandalous Political Conduct Fails to be Treated as a Scandal
Call Off the Global Drug War: Jimmy Carter in the NYTimes
Overworked America: Bauerlein and Jeffery on Mother Jones
Leadership Styles of Andrew Cuomo and Barack Obama Contrasted: Nate Silver
Blood on the Chopping Block: William Rivers Pitt on the Price for the GOP of Its Assault on Medicare
The Meaning of the Civil War: Drew Gilpin Faust on How American Understanding Has Evolved Over Time
The NLRB's Good Case Against Boeing: Kate Bronfenbrenner
Clarence Thomas Must Go: William Rivers Pitt on Truthout
The Key to Getting a Debt Ceiling Deal: Jonathan Chait
If Dems Play By Republican Rules, They Will Not Win: Russ Feingold
Profound Threat to Ocean Life: News Report of Findings of International Panel
Today's *Conservatism* Has Lost Touch with Reality: Fareed Zakaria in Time
Critique of the Democratic Calls for Weiner's Resignation: John B. Judis
Radical, Not Moderate: Eliot Spitzer on What the Republican Presidential Debate Showed
Squandering Medicare’s Money: Rita F. Redberg in the New York Times
America's Wasteful Health Care System: Krugman
The Sabotage of Financial Reform: Danny Schechter on Reader Supported News
Past Time for Obama to Take Off the Gloves: NYTimes Editorial re Elizabeth Warren's Non-Confirmation
* Hear My Radio Show from This Afternoon Here
The Beatification of Senator Simpson: Dean Baker on Simpson and Social Security
* Critiquing An Idea about Creativity, Found in a Malcolm Gladwell Article
Vouchercare Is Not Medicare: Krugman
* No True Patriot: A Commentary Now in Two Parts
* The *Palin is Nuts* Bruhaha: News Report from the Guardian, UK
Republicans Thrive on Nonsense: Jonathan Cohn
The Rise of the Second-String Psychopaths: David Schwartz, Psychotherapist
How will history judge Obama’s economic policy? Harold Meyerson in the Washington Post
The Koch Brothers and the End of State Universities: Juan Cole
Our Fantasy Nation? Nicholas Kristof on Where the Right Seems to be Taking Us
The Truth About the American Economy: Robert Reich
Trying is Important: Krugman's Critique of Obama's Politics/Policy on the Economy
Why Doctors Have Been Moving Left: Dr. Ron Chusid
People's Imperviousness to Evidence and Reason is Being Overstated: Prof. Jonathan Baron
* Radio Show I Did Today: A Link at Which it Can be Heard
America Becoming an Idiocracy: Dr. Brian Moench on Common Dreams
How Right-Wing Populism Got Hold of Working-Class Whites: Excerpt from *Deer Hunting with Jesus*
How America Falls Behind: E.J. Dionne on how the Politics of Irrelevancy is Crippling America
The IMF after the Fall of Its Head: Mark Weisbrot in the Guardian (UK)
Spitfire II-- On the Unpredictable Returns on Research and Innovation: Tim Harford on Slate
GOP Fears of Democrats' Extreme Socialism! Jon Hart Foresees Possible *Wild Ride* in 2012
Two Good Bits of Critique of Right-Wing Economic Nonsense from Krugman
* Have Returned from My Son's Graduation from College
Are the U.S. and China on a Collision Course? Aaron L. Friedberg in the New Republic
Polls Show Overwhelming Opposition to Cutting Medicare etc.: PPP Polling
Koch Brothers Fueling Far-Right Academic Centers Across the US: Think Progress
Let's Not Be Civil: Krugman Talks a Bit about the Elephant in the Room
Turns Out, It's the Red States that are the Welfare Queens: Harold Meyerson in the WashPost
* What Happened to "For the People and By the People"? Another Proposed Ad Copy
Vermont as a Possible Foothold for Single-Payer Health Care: George Weigel Report on Slate
The Supreme Court Continues to Make Money Dominant in Our Politics: Ronald Dworkin
The Republican Party Has Abandoned Its Own Best Traditions: E.J. Dionne
Senate Republicans Introduce Bill To Abolish The EPA
AFL-CIO Chief Threatens to Abandon Dems in 2012 Unless They Fight Harder for Labor
Obama's NLRB Takes a Radical Step (Enforcing the Law): John B. Judis in the New Repbublic
* Obamacare in the Courts and Questioning Judicial Review: Dahlia Lithwick, with Comment from Me
* What Does It Say about a Political Party If...? Copy for a Proposed Campaign Ad
The Individual Mandate's Constitutionality is Obvious: Andrew Koppelman via Jonathan Chait
* What These Showdowns Reveal: By Me
Thank Republicans for Finally Being Honest About Wanting to Destroy Medicare: Chris Bowers
* My Plan to Run a Series of Campaign Ads: "That's Not the American Way!"
FDR and Obama Contrasted by FDR's Grandson on Leadership in a Time of Economic Hardship
Krugman on the Focus on the Phony Economic *Problems* and the Disregard of the Real One
Shocking Example of the Nuttiness of Rand Paul: Jonathan Chait
It Wasn't Torture that Led to Bin Laden: Talking Points Memo
Bradley Manning, Barack Obama and the National Surveillance State: Jack M. Balkin
Everything's For Sale: Report on Koch Bros. Influence on Florida State University Econ Hiring
The GOP Priorities Laid Bare in a Montana Letter to the Editor
* No True Patriot: To Hate Liberalism is to Hate a Part of America's Heart
The Big Republican Budget Lie: Jonathan Cohn in The New Republic
Obama's Appproach to Terrorism Contrasted with Bush's: Michael Hirsh in the National Journal
Our Vanishing Night: Verlyn Klinkenborg in the National Geographic
Leading from Behind: An Obama Critique (and a Bit of Appreciation) from Leon Wieseltier
Watch This Speech by Senator Bernie Sanders to the California Democratic Convention
Manning's Jail Conditions Improve, Apparently Due to Protests: Guardian (UK)
Becoming Adolf: Excellent Essay by Rich Cohen in Vanity Fair on the Hitler Mustache (Part III)
Becoming Adolf: Excellent Essay by Rich Cohen in Vanity Fair on the Hitler Mustache (Part II)
What the Republican Budget Would Do to the Food Stamp Program: Jonathan Cohn
Becoming Adolf: Excellent Essay by Rich Cohen in Vanity Fair on the Hitler Mustache (Part I)
With Bad Arguments, the Supremes Entangle Government in the Support of Religion: Ronald Dworkin
The Symbollic Meaning of Bin Laden's Death for American Democracy: Paul Berman in the New Republic
* Our Crisis is Represented in Three Epic Movies of our Times
Trump as a Sign of the Pathology on the Right: The Editors of the New Republic
Raise America's Taxes: Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times
Donald Trump as Republican Id: Johann Hari in the Independent UK
Obama Exposes the Sick Joke of the Ryan Plan: Paul Krugman
The Case for Higher Taxation of Investments: Harold Meyerson in the WashPost
UK Numbers Confirm the Folly of the Austerions: Paul Krugman
* Entropy and Housekeeping and the Pattern of American History: A Comment I Wrote on Opednews
What Use *Consciousness Raising*? Stanley Fish
Thought Control at Koch and Company: Mark Ames and Mike Elk in the Nation
* In So Grave a Crisis, What Should We Ask of Ourselves?
NYTimes Editorial on the Trail of Republican Destruction on the American Landscape
Shock Doctrine and the Assault on Democracy in Michigan: Rania Khalek in Common Dreams
Waiting for the Spark: Ralph Nader on Common Dreams
* A Constructive Primary Challenge to President Obama
America Needs a Better Ruling Class: E.J. Dionne
Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System: Chris Hedges on Truthdig
Lessons from Manning's transfer out of Quantico: Glenn Greenwald with News and Excellent Analysis
Extortion Politics: Robert Reich
Who Needs Government? Dean Baker Slams Robert Samuelson
The Maximalist Supreme Court: Scott Lemieux in The American Prospect
* Working on an Approach to Talking to Republicans in My District: Could You Please Help Me?
Going After Net Neutrality: Truthout Report on Latest GOP Sell-out of the Many for the Corporate Few
Dionne Sees Obama's Deficit Speech as Worthy of a President
Private Manning’s Humiliation: Legal Scholars' Letter of Protest
Ryan's Plan for Medicare is *Serious* Like a Mugging is Serious: Dean Baker
John Kerry Fed Up with *Flat Earth Caucus*: Reuters Report
Exporting Democracy Has Led to Shortages of it in U.S.: The Borowitz Report
* *Oh Golly! Wouldn't a Cold Hamm's Beer Taste Good Right Now?*
Two Quick Krugman Responses to the Obama Speech: Better Than Feared, Much Better Than Ryan
Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%: Joseph Stiglitz on America's Growing and Corrosive Inequality
How Not to Deal with Bullies: Robert Reich Predicting Future GOP Hostage-Takings
How the English and Irish Regard Each Other: A Brilliant Quotation from George Bernard Shaw
* Obama's Broken Promise and the Spirit of Truthfulness
Just Because Sen. Kyl Said It, Doesn't Imply He Means It's Actually True: Jason Linkins on HuffPost
No Shutdown, But a Lot of Sellouts: John Nichols in the Nation
The Nowhere Man: William Rivers Pitt's Lament about the Disappearing Leadership of Barack Obama
It’s Not Really About Spending: NYTimes Editorial
The Achilles’ Heel of Paul Ryan’s ‘Path to Prosperity’: Jonathan Chait
Republicans Want to Repeal the 20th Century: Harold Meyerson on the Ryan Budget
Krugman on Why There Aren't Any Conservative Blogs He Reads Regularly
* Why Are the Democrats Wimps? Jonathan Chait Has it Backwards
"Let's Talk About THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM!" New and Improved Version
Austerity as a Bankrupt Economic Policy: Krugman
Secret Fears of the Super-Rich: Graeme Wood in the Atlantic (Part Three)
When the Big Bucks Commit Crimes, It's the Prosecutors Who Get Tried: Paul Krugman
Liberalism and the Realm of the Spirit: An Exchange
An *Elephant-in-the-Room*-Type Statement from Thomas Friedman
Punditry from the Disgraced: Katrina vanden Heuvel on the Media's Lack of Decent Standards
* The Elephant in the Room* and the Destruction of the Death Star in the First Star Wars Movie
Now Maine as a Battlefield in the Republican War on American Labor: Laura Clawson on Daily Kos
To Fire Up the Base, the National Dems Have to Pick a Fight: Chris Bowers on Daily Kos
Why So Little Looting in Japan: Christopher Beam with an Example of How Culture Works
*The Elephant in the Room* is Like the Fix in *Apollo 13*
How a Powerful Literary Voice Can Shape a Society: The Case of Charles Dickens
The War on Elizabeth Warren: Krugman's Powerful Indictment of the Right-Wing Attack Machine
The Sad, Hypocritical Retirement of Evan Bayh: Ezra Klein
Secret Fears of the Super-Rich: Graeme Wood in the Atlantic (Part Two)
Court Allows Constitutional Challenge to New FISA Law: Glenn Greenwald
* No True Patriot: My NPR Radio Commentary Can Be Heard Here
China Leading the Way on Nuclear Power from Thorium: Telegraph (UK)
* Recasting the Ending of the *Elephant in the Room* Speech
* One Way the Elephant Disables Americans from Talking about It
* Not By Bread Alone, but Not Breadlessly Either
Our Right-Leaning Public Media: Ralph Nader on Common Dreams
* Will You Help This Go Viral?
Secret Fears of the Super-Rich: Graeme Wood in the Atlantic (Part One)
The GOP Midwest Implosion Accelerates: Jonathan Chait in the New Republic
* The Parallel Campaign: Can Talking About the Elephant in the Room Go Viral? (Part Two)
Pay Teachers More: Nicholas Kristof on the Proven Value of Outstanding Teachers
Signs of Fraudlence in the Video that Skewered NPR: Jason Linkins on Huffington Post
* The Parallel Campaign: Can Talking About the Elephant in the Room Go Viral? (Part One)
Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Warren? Katrina Vanden Heuvel in the Nation
Now Michigan: Forbes Blog on How Right-Wing Governor Is Sweeping Away a Big Piece of Democracy
* The Lust for Power and Wealth Does Not Deserve the Name, *Ideology*
Help Wanted: Researching How My Opponent Serves the Elephant
Daniel Ellsberg on the *Shameful Abuse of Bradley Manning*
Dumbing Deficits Down: Paul Krugman Talks About a Chunk of the Elephant
What Wisconsin Democrats can teach Washington Democrats: E.J. Dionne, Right on Target
Jonathan Chait's Take on Judge Vinton's Decision as Politics Masquerading as Law
Robert Reich on *Governor Walker's Coup D'Etat * / And Al Franken Says *This Isn't Over*
Some Findings about Sex in Contemporary America
Where Are the National Democrats, Asks Mitchell Bard A Propos Specifically of Wisconsin?
* Let's Talk About THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM!
The Next Big Extinction an Eye-Blink Away: The Age (Australia)
* Big Announcement: I'm Running for Congress
Mistaken Orientations in *Risk Management*: Another Passage from the Book *Streetlights and Shadows*
Lose the Future: Paul Krugman on How the GOP in Texas Sacrifices the Children
Elizabeth Warren Speaks on the Collapsing Middle Class
The Real Political Math In Wisconsin: Howard Fineman
One Bad Argument Against Collective Bargaining Rights: Samuel Culbert Debunks *Performance Reviews*
How the GOP Uses Policy as a Form of Warfare: Allan Lichtman on Common Dreams
Laying Foundation Before Building: A Story of Effective Leadership from *Streetlights and Shadows*
Krugman on the *Deficit* Commission (A Deficit of Decency?)
Anti-Lying Law Keeps Fox Out of Canada: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
* My Radio Show This Morning, I Commend for Your Listening Here
Devastating Indictment of Political Economy in the U.S. Today from Jeffrey Sachs
Why Wisconsin Matters: Pieces by E.J. Dionne and Dana Milbank
The Republican Shakedown: Robert Reich
* Please Help Me Get Ready to Discuss Wisconsin on the Radio
Shock Doctrine, U.S.A.: Krugman
* Interpreting the Beck Card in the Republican Deck
Domestic Spending Has Not Grown as a % of GDP for 50 Years: Ryan Avent
Deficit Hawks and the Games They Play: E.J. Dionne in the Washington Post
Limbaugh and the Right-Wingers' Ugly Attacks on Michelle Obama's Good Food Campaign: Dana Milbank
Why Professors Tend to be Democrats: Jonathan Chait Says It's Not Mostly Ideology
* My Intuitive Take on What the GOP Has Been Doing on Abortion in the House
Wisconsin, Ohio Public Employees are Not Overpaid: Meteor Blades on Daily Kos
Two Interesting Paragraphs from a Book about Goethe
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: International Contagion in the Middle East
*Stuff is Just Made Up*: Former Fox Insider Tells How Fox News Operates
* Majority of Wisconsin residents oppose Walker’s Bill: Chris Bowers Report, My Commentary
The Republican Strategy: Robert Reich
Obama's Present Political Strategy, According to E.J. Dionne
Is Right-Wing Talk Radio Dying? John Avlon on Daily Beast
Boehner, The Teahadists, and the Question of a Government Shutdown: Jed Lewison on Daily Kos
How Economic Muscle Can Produce Injustice in America: Bill Moyers Provides Some Illustration
The Dems May not Need the South, but the South Needs Them: Mark Schmitt on The American Prospect
South Dakota Considering Legalizing the Murder of Abortion Doctors: Barbara Morrill on Daily Kos
* On the Radio for One Hour Tomorrow (Wed) Morning in Virginia
The Repeal Crusade in the Republican Base: Greg Sargent in the Washington Post
* Be Nice to Bigots: William Saletan (and I) on the GOP's Craven Indulgence of Its Base's Illusion
Initial Conclusions Can Be a Trap: From the Book *Streetlights and Shadows*
Crucial Information Gets Ignored: From the Book *Streetlights and Shadows*
Don't Start Thinking About Tomorrow: Krugman on How the GOP-Proposed Cuts Eat the Future
*Thoughts about the Revolution in Egypt
Dealing with the Widower's First Wife: A Touching View from Slate's "Dear Prudence"
The Tenth Amendment is Not the Strait-Jacket the Tea Party People Think It Is
Mistakes, The Secret to Happiness: Steve Roberts
* Wondering if I Need to Revise My Understanding of Today's GOP
Koch Brothers Now at Heart of GOP Power: Report from the LA Times
* AOL Acquires Huffington Post: My Concerns, Plus a Critique from Dana Milbank
From George Orwell's Great Essay on Charles Dickens
For Our Economic Mess, Dean Baker Blames the Housing Bubble and the Fed
* Calling Obama a "Polarizing Figure" Obscures the Reality: I Take Issue With AOL's "Poll Watch"
Britain Proves the Folly of GOP Economics: Robert Shrum in THE WEEK
Why Reagan's Tax-cut Guru is Aghast at Today's GOP: David Corn on David Stockman
More Than a Feeling: How Music Plays in the Human Brain
More on the Abusive Treatment of the Alleged Wikileaks Leaker
Is Health Care Reform Unconstitutional? Why David Cole, in the NYRB, Thinks It Will Be Upheld
Inquiry and Intimidation: Krugman says, Beware of Coming Up with Findings the GOP Doesn't Like
Needed, An Infrastructure Bank: Public Memo from Bill Galston to Gene Sperling
How Radical Would a New Regime in Egypt Be? Two Views-- Juan Cole and Barry Rubin
The Rest of Us Aren't So OK Either: Anxiety Besetting Contemporary America
* Whence the Division/Divisiveness in the American Body Politic?
Dean Baker Criticizes Times' Scare Tactics about Supposed *Demographic Squeeze* in Japan
A Court Decision Tinged with Politics: Jonathan Chait on the Florida Judge's Striking down the ACA
The Kids Aren't OK: USA Editorial on the Condition of America's Young
* You Can Hear My Latest Virginia Radio Show Here
* The Restoration of Dream-Life
The Bitter Fruits of Inequality: Nicholas Kristof in the NYTimes
* You Can Hear My Virginia Radio Show Live on the Web this Upcoming Morning
The Tea Party Wags the Dog: Frank Rich on the Positioning of Obama and the Republicans
Birth of the Beat: The Vital Musical Dimension of Mother-Infant Interaction
* Upheaval in the Arab World: What Should Be Said?
* Thoughts of Mine on the Still-up-for-Grabs State of the Battle Ongoing about America's Destiny
Gaming the Emotions: Very Interesting Research Reported in Harvard Magazine
Fox News Has Lost Public Trust in the Past Year: Public Policy Polling
Scalia's Originalist Hypocrisy Shown by Bush v. Gore: Robert Parry
Obama's State of the Union Address as a Trap for the GOP: Ed Kilgore on the New Republic
Legalize Drugs, Says Mexico's Ex-President Vicente Fox: Time Magazine
Is Obama Doing a *Backdoor Cap-and-Trade*?: David Roberts Says No, It's the Rule of Law
Are the Dems Setting a Trap for the GOP? Jonathan Chait
Breaking News Report: White House Backs Down On Social Security Cuts In State Of The Union
*True Grit* and the State of America, 1969 and 2010: Frank Rich in the NYTimes
No, Both Sides DON*T Do It: Melissa McEwan on Alternet
Glenn Beck's Latest Contribution to Civility: Professor Targeted by Beck Getting Death Threats
Is This a Whole New Level of Dumb? William Rivers Pitt Undergoes a Crisis
Can American Democracy Protect Itself by Rolling Back *Citizens United*? Katrina Vanden Heuvel
* The Effort to be Right: IV-- When the Right and the Desire to Be Right Conflict
Chris Christie Inflames Anti-Muslim Right: Jonathan Chait in the New Republic
Bye-bye Lieberman: Why Emily Bazelon Loathes Her Connecticut Senator
* Obama Gets a Second Chance: II-- A Plan for How to Win the Rematch
What's This About? Report Says Japanese Losing Sex Drive
* Obama Gets a Second Chance: I-- This Time He'd Better Be Ready
An Issue that Arose on the Radio Today
Talking on the Radio Tuesday Morning (in VA): How to Listen, How to Call
* The Effort to be Right III: Leaning on the Wisdom of Others
*Job-killing* As the Latest GOP Propaganda Nonsense: Steven Pearlstein in the WashPost
Mixed Seating at the SOTU? An Interesting Idea Reported in the NYTimes
My Own Civility: Welder Asks a Good Question
Unprecedented: Popular Protest Topples an Arab Government
On Bush's Memoirs: Joseph Lelyveld in the New York Review
* The Effort to be Right: II-- Multi-pronged Campaign toward a Multi-Dimensional *Rightness*
* Thoughts in the Wake of Obama's Tucson Speech
Obama to Blink First on Social Security: Robert Kuttner on Politico
* Craziness and Politics: Some Thoughts
* The Effort to Be Right: I-- Keeping Wholeness Before Our Eyes
Food Riots in Our Global Future? Gwynne Dyer on Common Dreams
What a Debt Default Would Mean: Ezra Klein in the Washington Post
* On the Question of Seeing Sarah Palin as Having Some Responsibility
* No True Patriot Could Be So Dismissive of American Liberalism: Liberalism and American Glory
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Some Reporting about the Giffords Shooting
Gail Collins* Fine Satire on This Week in the GOP Congress
Has Science Buried Philosophy (and Natural Theology)? John Haldane Takes on Hawking and Mlodinow
R.J. Eskow's Thoughts on the Bill Daley Appointment
The Constitution May not be What the Tea-Partyers Think: Garrett Epps in the Atlantic
Psychologists for Social Responsibility Protest Solitary Confinement of Wikileaks Leaker
* Responding to Critics II-B: Misplaced Focus on the Partisan Fight?
Obama's Losing the War on Inequality: Jacob Weisberg
* Responding to Critics II-A: Misplaced Focus on the Partisan Fight?
Scalia Says Women Don't Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination: Amanda Terkel Reports
* E.J. Dionne Sees Some Opportunities in the Coming GOP House
My 1933 Nightmare: David Michael Green on the Darkness in America
How to Make a Decent Cup of Tea: Christopher Hitchens
The Coming Game of Chicken on the Debt Ceiling: Alexander C. Hart in the New Republic
* Money and Equality in the Political Battle: My Response to Welder
Obama*s War on Terror is not *Bush Lite*: David Cole in the New Republic
The Supreme Court as the *Person of the Year*: Bob Burnett on the *Citizens United* Decision
Sharing My Vision of Wholeness: "Our Pathways Into Deep Meaning"
Americans Are not as Religious as They Claim: Shankar Ventantam on Slate
Krugman on Zombie Ideas and Orwellian Re-Writing of History on the Right
Two Americas, with Washington Making Things Worse: Robert Reich
*I Should Have Stuck with What I Said at the End of 2007
America's Political Class Struggle: Jeffrey Sachs on Huffington Post
Why Did the South Secede? Edward Ball, Descendant of Confederate Soldiers, and E.J. Dionne Answer
* Here's Where You Can Hear a Radio Show I Did this Week in Washington State
William Gallston's Take on What Obama Should Do in His State of the Union Address
* Telling My Father’s Grandchildren about the Grandfather They Never Knew: III-- *You Live, Kid!*
Conservative Hysteria over the Individual Mandate: Jonathan Chait in the New Republic
* Does My Picture Need Adjustment? Discussion Question in the Wake of This Week's Developments
Welder Sees No Need to Respect Liberalism, and I Respond to His Counterargument
What Progressives Don't Understand About Obama: Ishmael Reed in the New York Times
* The Humanizing Movement of *Winter*s Bone*
The Facts Lose: Krugman on the G.O.P. Narrative about the Financial Crisis
Keep Obama from Making the Next Bad Deal: Dean Baker on How Social Security Needs Protection
The History and Meaning of the Estate Tax: Joseph Thorndike on Huffington Post
* No True Patriot Could Be So Dismissive of American Liberalism: Introduction
What Obama SHOULD be Talking About with Corporate CEOs: Robert Borosage
* A Glimpse into a Part of the Right-Wing Problem
* About the Wikileaks Issue, What Should be the Rules?
If Homosexuality if OK, Is Incest? William Saletan Argues Why They're Different
* The State of the Union Address I Would Like (But no Longer Hope) to Hear
Fox News Boss Ordered Staffers To Cast Doubt On Climate Change Science
You Can Hear My Virginia Radio Show Here
* Telling My Father's Grandchildren about the Grandfather They Never Knew: I-- Roots
* Leaving it on the Field: Reflections on How I Play the Game of Life
Humor (if It Weren't So Sad) from Andy Borowitz
Institutional Insanity: Ralph Nader on Crazy Republicans, Spineless Democrats and Clueless Reporters
The Big Economic Story, and Why Obama Isn't Telling It: Robert Reich on his Blog
* Imagine You're a Congressman Contemplating Plan C: Smart Move or Political Suicide?
If Only Obama Could Throw a Punch Like Krugman Can: Krugman on the *Axis of Depression*
Responding to Critics: I: The Issue of What's Deep and Important
More on Education from Thomas Friedman
* On Obama on Dealing with *Hostage-Takers*
* February 29, 2008: The Day I Misoverestimated Obama
The Central Role of Media in the Right-Wing Ascendancy: Robert Parry
* Responding to the Obama Defense of the Tax-Cut Deal
* How I See this Idea of Moving Past Obama
The Obama/Post-Obama Issue: Thoughts from Ed Kilgore, Michael Lerner, and Me
Excerpt from Frank Rich's *All the President’s Captors*
Dean Baker Goes After Those (Thomas Friedman, CBS, David Brooks) Attacking Social Security
The Threat of Republican Dismantling of Regulation: John B. Judis in the New Republic
Deep-Six the Deficit Commission Report: Dean Baker in the New Republic
* Plan C is Born: A Post-Obama Strategy for Getting the Needed Leadership NOW
* Some Thoughts of Mine on the *Joy in a Dark Age* Challenge*
Wondering: How to Live Joyfully as the Wider World Slides into a Dark Age?
* "Obama is Weak" is Today's Viral Thought
*Here's My Plan B for Transforming the Political Dynamic of the Country
Avatar in Real Life: The People vs. the Dam in the Amazon Rainforest
* A Gaping Hole in Americans' Vigilance Regarding *Freedom*
* *Law & Order* As an Artistic Achievement of the Highest Order: The Element of Surprise
Against the Approach of the Deficit Commission: Critique by W. Lee Hammond of AARP
Do You Want to Sign up for the NSB Newsletter?
* About the Latest WikiLeaks, I Disagree with this Defense from the Guardian
* Message to My WSVA Audience: Can You Tell My Anything Constructive the Republicans Are Doing?
The TSA, the Right, and My Busted Watch: William Rivers Pitt on the Pat-Down Brouhaha
Perhaps Paul Krugman's Deepest Piece: On the Ways that Economic Wisdom Got Lost
* How the Right Disables the Tools that Could Be Used Against Them
* *Law & Order* As an Artistic Achievement of the Highest Order: Form and Formula
Wishing Everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!
How Germany got it Right on the Economy: Harold Meyerson in the Washington Post
* *Law & Order* As an Artistic Achievement of the Highest Order: Introductory
How Will China Deal with North Korea? News Analysis in the New York Times
Education in America: Tom Friedman on How and Why We're in a Hole
* Social Mobility in America: Perspectives from Welder and Me
Krugman's Take on the Global Economy and the Rise of Ill-Conceived Policy
* Another Place in Which to Glimpse the Reality of that Pattern/Force I Call *Evil*
Methinks They Do Protest too Much: Matt Miller on the Trumpeting of American Exceptionalism
Preview of Coming Attractions: My *Strategy for Obama*
Another Version of *Obama Must Fight*: This One From William Greider in the Nation
The Need to Invest in Technologies to Avoid Energy Crisis: Steven Chu in Science News in 2008
* Hear My Virginia Radio Show from Earlier This Week
* The Idea *Obama Must Fight* Goes Semi-Viral
* How Ted Koppel Just Lost My Respect
Three Juicy Goodies from Dean Baker's *Beat the Press Round-Up*
Message to My WSVA Audience: Is *No Compromise* a Defensible Position for the Republicans to Take?
The Need to Reform Working Hours for Resident Physicians: Charles Czeisler in Science News
Torn by Bullying Suicides, Mega-Church Pastor Says He's Gay: News Report on AOL News
* The Two Crucial Battles Obama Forfeited: How Obama Surrendered His Power by Not Fighting
This is the Guy: William Rivers Pitt's Revulsion at the Reappearance of George W. Bush
The Condition of the U.S. Legal System is NOT at the Top of the Standings: David Swanson on Opednews
Will Fox Permit Even This Outrageous Lie from Glenn Beck, Cenk Uygur Wonders?
Revenge on the Wall Street Bull: A Vignette from Ed Schmookler
Where's the Democrats' Fighting Spirit? Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post
Obama's Inspiring Speech in Indonesia: Edward Schumacher-Matos in the Washington Post
The 9/11 Controversy: What Do You Think is the Truth, and Why?
The Mortgage Morass: Krugman in the NYTimes
* When Does the Idea of *Evil* Explain Best?
Sacred Space of Lovers: Marnia Robinson on How Men Can Render Their Feelings More Monogamous
* A Constitutional Argument Against the Filibuster as Used by the Republicans
Good Stuff from Dean Baker: On Hiring; Social Security; TARP
* GUIDEPOSTS for Those Without Doctrine: Creating an Anthology of the Human Good
Election Night Disputation Between Welder and Me
* Keith Olbermann Suspended from MSNBC: Is there a Rat to Smell Here, Will You Sign this Petition?
* A Blustery Autumn Day on the Ridge Where I Live: A Picture
Fake Scandals Begin, Will Obama Finally Fight Back?
* Obama and the Tax Cuts for the Rich: I Hope He's Not Going to be Too Conciliatory
And Now for the Next Battle: E.J. Dionne in the WashPost
To Cry or Become Inured to the Pain: NSB Reader Katrin Reflects
What Lessons of Election Day? Robert Kuttner on Huffington Post
* What Obama Should Say Post-Election: My Thoughts
Fast Track to Inequality: Bob Herbert in the NYTimes
Dean Baker Goes After the Washington Post (Which he Calls *Fox on 15th Street*)
Groucho Marx Sheds Light on the Tea Party: Summary of a Column from Spain's Publico
* Pre-Election Radio Show from Wednesday to Washington State
Perception of US Corruption is Growing: Report from AOL News
Kindergarten Matters: Dramatic Research Findings Reported in Harvard Magazine
* An Appreciation of Cole Porter's Creativity
American Conservatives and Climate Change Denial: Thoughts from Bill McKibben
Their Own Facts: Paul Waldman on How Misunderstandings about Government Benefit the Right
* My Virginia Radio Show from Monday Can Be Heard Here
A Question About False Political Advertising
* Message to My WSVA Audience: What Are the Republicans Saying that Deserves to be Taken Seriously?
The Real Elite are Conning the Tea-Party Populists: Dana Milbank in the Washington Post
Bloomberg vs. Soft Drinks Bought on Food Stamps: William Saletan on Slate
Dean Baker Strikes Three Good Blows for Truth against Obfuscating Economic Reporting
Václav Havel and Desmond Tutu Appeal to China to Free Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
* The Sacred Space of Lovers: Boy-Meets-Girl Meets Make-Love-Not-War
Baptist Leader Tells Christians to Eschew Yoga: Report on Huffington Post
* So Tired of Stupid I Could Scream: Prompted by Some Idiocy Encountered in THE WEEK
The Wars on Drugs and Terror: Two Versions of the Same Destructive Deceit, says Glenn Greenwald
* Please Help me with Some Information, I Need it for a Radio Commentary I'm Writing
Marriage Today in the USA: Justin Wolfers in the NYTimes
Big Money Wages Class War: E.J. Dionne in the Washington Post
Some Indicators of America's Relative Decline: A Passage from Glenn Greenwald
The Secret Big-Money Takeover of America: Robert Reich on Common Dreams
Political Abuse of Science: Michael E. Mann in the Washington Post
Unraveling the Torture Knot: Timothy Rutten in the LA Times
Repealing Health Care and Letting that TN House Burn Down: Ezra Klein in the Wash Post
* When Being Jewish is not a Matter of Religion: My Own Personal Statement
Obama's Courageous Stand on Foreclosure: Marc Ash on Reader Supported News
* The Sacred Space of Lovers: Growing Up in Pleasantville
Americans' Four Main Views of God: Report from USA Today
Where to Draw the Line on Free Speech: On the Case of the Protest at the Soldier's Funeral
* Question for the Group: In What Ways Has America Declined Relative to Other Advanced Nations?
* The Plight of the Hummingbird
Fear and Favor: Krugman in the Times on Fox and the Republicans
* The Visible and the Invisible: A Response to Challenging Words from an NSB Reader
Obama Wants Out of Afghanistan: Doyle McManus in the LA Times
*The Sacred Space of Lovers: Sexual Fidelity and Sexual Jealousy, The Question
* The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O’Donnell: Frank Rich in the NYTimes
* Why the Spirit of Godfathers I and II are So Different: A Hypothesis
Sense from Krugman vs. the Nonsense on Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Phase Two of Obama Foreign Policy Has Begun: Robert Kagan in the Washington Post
* Hatred of Government by Supposed Patriots: Jim Z and I on the Abandonment of the Democratic Ideal
* You Can Hear My Radio Show in Virginia from Monday Here
What the Democrats Could Have Done: Michael Lerner on Common Dreams
* Why Use Language Like "Sacred" and "Evil"?
The Sacred Space of Lovers: Five Things Lithuanians Associate with *Romantic Love*
Get Off Your Butts, Dems: Matthew Yglesias in the Daily Beast
Fascinating Story of Cultural Transformation in a Baboon Troop: An Audio from Radiolab
Message to My WSVA Audience: Would You Want to Know?
The Angry Rich: Another Dazzling Krugman Polemic
How Our Mental Environment Determines What We'll Believe: Shankar Vedantam on Slate
Understanding the Tea Party: Jacob Weisberg in Newsweek
* The Sacred Space of Lovers: Love at First Sight (Prompted by *South Pacific*)
Why US Workers Have Been Hit Harder than European: Harold Meyerson in the WashPost
The *Enthusiasm Gap* is a Reflection of a Spiritual Reality
For William Rivers Pitt, the Battle Against the Deranged Republicans Gets Personal
Democracy's Reputation Dims, But its Importance Remains: Roger Cohen in the NYTimes
Coming Soon to NSB: "Messages to My [Virginia Radio] Audience" (New Feature )
Forbes’ Shameful Piece on Obama as the “Other”: Ryan Chittum in the Columbia Journalism Review
The Sacred Space of Lovers: Feeling Alone
The Dems Need to Romance Their Base: Charles Blow in the NYTimes
How Terrible for the Environment Would be a GOP Congress: Bradford Plumer
Aren’t We Clever? Tom Friedman Bemoans US Stupidity on Climate Change
* The Sacred Space of Lovers as a Threat to Power Systems
*Pipe Dreams* Obama and the Dems Have Accomplished: Ezra Klein in the WashPost
The New Science of Morality: Sam Harris on the Edge.com
Time for This Big Dog to Bite Back: Frank Rich on What Obama Has to Do
David Frum Critiques the Tea Party*s Ways
Nine Things Obama Can Do To Minimize Mid-Term Losses: Robert Kuttner on Huffington Post
* The Sacred Space of Lovers: Our Example of *Choosing Experiences to Share*
The Chamber of Commerce is Without Shame or Sense: Robert Borosage on Huffington Post
* Will Obama Ever Learn that One Good Punch Should be Followed up by Others?
Haley Barbour's History Re-Write: Eugene Robinson Exposes the Lies on Race and the Republican Party
* The Sacred Space of Lovers: Choosing Experiences to Share (Your Participation Invited)
The Idea that Evidence Should Trump Dogma, Now Endangered, Was Hard Won
Global Banking Rules Agreed To: News Report on Huffington Post
* Obama May Have Just Won a Battle, I Hope He Learns the Lesson Here
It’s Witch-Hunt Season: Paul Krugman on the Ugly Prospect of an Increase in Right-Wing Power
* How the Parable of the Tribes Illuminates the Sacred Space of Lovers
Paying the Price: Bob Herbert on What the American People Hold Against the Democrats
Krugman Reviews the Economic-Policy Lessons of the Past Year and a Half
Might Thorium Be the Energy Solution? Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph (UK)
* The Sacred Space of Lovers: The Intermittancy of the Experience of the Sacred
American Workers Hurt by the Loss of Bargaining Power: Peter Dreier in the American Prospect
What Tiger Woods Didn't Understand About His Mistresses: Laura Kipnis on Slate
Making Social Security Less Generous isn't the Answer: Ezra Klein in the Washington Post
* The Sacred Space of Lovers: Entrained by Culture for Romance
The Pique of a Peek at the Peak Oil Situation: Report Via Der Spiegel on a German Military Report
* Where Are the Moving Lines? Reflections on the State of Play in Political America
Deficit Commission Follies: Robert Kuttner on Huffington Post
* A Profound Clue Right Here on NSB
A Deserted Feeling in Working-Class America: Harold Meyerson in the Washington Post
Howard Kurtz and the WashPost's Contempt for its Readers: Glenn Greenwald
Here's a Podcast, I Recommend, of Me on the Radio in Virginia
* The Sacred Space of Lovers: How Nature Declares that Sacredness
What Republicans Believe about Obama and Islam: Outrageous Poll Results Reported by Sam Stein
How the *Recovery Act* Is Changing America: Michael Grunwald in TIME Magazine
Appeasing the Bond Gods: Paul Krugman on the Irrationality of the *Austerians*
The Spirituality of Imperfection: Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham
Right-Wing Climate-Change Denial in Global Perspective: George Monbiot in the Guardian
* The Sacred Space of Lovers: Reflections on *You've Got Mail*
GOP's Far-Right Turn: E.J. Dionne in the Washington Post
Good Riddance to Dr. Laura: Jesse Singal in the New Republic
Some Judges Decry Weak Bank Settlements: Carey Mulligan News Report in New York Times
* The Sacred Space of Lovers: A Note About Same-Sex (as Well as Male-Female) Lovers
The Mosque Hysteria and the Right Wing Propaganda Machine: Frank Rich in the NYTimes
The Absence of a Strong Vision Statement: Michael Kazin on Why Obama is Not Doing Better
* The Sacred Space of Lovers: Participating in the Archetype
Air-Conditioning as a Problem: Stan Cox on Common Dreams
Mitch McConnell's Despicable Dog Whistle: Jonathan Chait
Stuff the Right-Wing Makes Up: Krugman on Bogus Arguments about Regulation and Economic Growth
* David Broder's Ridiculous Equivalency: Piece by Broder, Comment from Me
The Moral Life of Babies: Paul Bloom in the NYTimes
Conservative Economic Hysteria In 1993 And Today: Jonathan Chait in the New Republic
Other countries probing Bush-era torture — Why aren't we? Report from McClatchy Newspapers
* The Sacred Space of Lovers: The Bogus Counsel Problem
How Obama Undid Himself in His Handling of the Financial Crisis: John B. Judis in The New Republic
Scandals-- Why We Can't Live Without Them: Laura Kipnis on Slate
* Don’t Send In the Clones: Maureen Dowd, Plus a Comment from Me
Junk Food Appears Addictive in Rats: Report in Science News
* The Sacred Space of Lovers: Two Keys Simultaneously
U.S. Offers Aid to Rescue Pakistanis and Reclaim Image: NYTimes News Article
Planning Good Spaces for People to Lead Good Lives: George Monbiot in the Guardian
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Studies of Human Social Networks Reveal Loneliness as a Contagion
* One Criticism of Obama (re the Elizabeth Warren Appointment Issue) with which I Disagree
I Would Appreciate Encouragement
* The Sacred Space of Lovers: The Fear of Putting People Off
* A Critique of the Estimable Rachel Maddow
Swearing as a Pain-Killer: Research Report from Science News
Whom to Blame for the Death of Climate Change Legislation: Krugman's On-Target Indictment
You Can Hear My Virginia Radio Show Live this Coming (Thursday) Morning
Forget Brainstorming: Newsweek Article on How Creativity Is and Isn't to be Fostered
Keynes in Asia: Another Good Piece from Krugman's Blog
* The Sacred Space of Lovers: Intimacy and Privacy
America Slipping: Bob Herbert on the Relative Educational Decline of the United States
How People Value Celebrity Objects: Passage from *How Pleasure Works* by Paul Bloom
Well-Reasoned, Powerful Decision to Overturn Prop 8: Dahlia Lithwick
Dean Baker Slams a Couple of Major Washington Journalists for Their Lousy Economics
* The Sacred Space of Lovers: An Introduction
The Importance of Tying the GOP to GWBush: Greg Sargent in the Washington Post
Good News about Aging Brains: Marianne Power in the Daily Mail
Podcast of a Radio Show I Did Yesterday to Washington State
Poll: How Has Reading NSB Affected Your Political Intentions?
Don't Forget the Messes Were Made by Bush: William Rivers Pitt
The Dangers of the Anti-Mosque Demagoguery: William Saletan
An Interesting Way Rhesus Monkeys Are Like Humans: From Bloom*s *How Pleasure Works*
Declaration of Incoherence: Tom Toles
* Jonathan Chait's *Conservative Hatred vs. Liberal Hatred* Plus My Email to Mr. Chait
Bushite Torturers Make Themselves Out the Victims: Dahlia Lithwick and Glenn Greenwald
* We Take in More Readily from Those to Whom we Feel Connected
The Angry Left Needs Hugs and Kisses: Jules Siegel on Truthout
How We Get Imprinted with the Music We Like: From Bloom*s *How Pleasure Works*
How to Use the Tax-Cut Issue to Put the Republicans in a Corner: Jonathan Chait in the New Republic
The Benefits of Discussing End-of-Life Issues: Atul Gawande in the New Yorker
Dean Baker Slams WashPost Mischaracterization of AFL-CIO Policy Positions
It's Not Racism, It's Race-Baiting: Paul Waldman on the American Prospect
* Here's Where to Hear a Radio Commentary by Me (Newly Broadcast by my Local NPR Station)
What Is the First Rule for Democratic Success in November? Robert Creamer on Huffington Post
* Too Presidential: Another Way Obama Can Replenish His Power
Left Pushes Hard for Elizabeth Warren: Eleanor Clift on Newsweek
* More Dog Whistles, and the Alan Grayson Case
* Daniel Schorr, the End of an Era
* Who Knows What's in the Human Heart? An Exchange from OpedNews on the Mel Gibson Rant Piece
Podcasts of Thursday's Radio Show Here in Virginia: On Obama's Accomplishment and Problems
Dog Whistle Politics: William Rivers Pitt on Truthout
Tactical Radicalism And The End Of The GOP Establishment: Jonathan Chait
What Science Can Teach about How to Vacation Best: Drake Bennett in The Week Magazine
A Question that Arose on the Radio Show This Morning
The Unknown Unknowns: A Passage from an Article by Errol Morris
My Virginia Radio Show Can Be Heard (and Called) Live, on the Web, Tomorrow Morning
High Achievement, Low Poll Numbers: Krugman Explains the *Obama Paradox*
Ways to Change Course in Afghanistan: Richard Haass in Newsweek
* Had Lincoln Not Been Shot, NSB Might Not Exist
Dirty Little Secrets the Republicans Don't Want You to Know: Robert Creamer on Huffington Post
Two Recent Fine Blog Entries by Krugman
The Great Reunion of the Battle of Gettysburg, 1913: Stefany Anne Golberg in the Smart Set
*Inventing New Meanings* for the Constitution: My Response to David R's Complaint about the Court
My Private Obama: Robert Kuttner in Huffington Post
Southern Strategist Sarah Palin Denies the Southern Strategy: Bob Cesca on Huffington Post
*Mel Gibson’s Rant as Profound Clue: An Exercise in the Tracing of the Spirit
* Another Piece of Political Advice: How Obama Should Lead the Coming Campaign
Why Is *To Kill A Mockingbird* Being Attacked? Jesse Kornbluth on Huffington Post
The Costs of Winning at All Costs: Rabbi Shmuley Boteach on Lebron James Plus
* Whatever Anyone Wants to Talk About
Clinging to False Belief: A Illustrative Case from I WILL BEAR WITNESS
There's No *Free Lemonade*: Terry Savage in the Chicago Sun-Times
Last Tuesday*s Radio Show Can Be Heard Here on Podcast
Zombie Ideas and the Fate of the Deficit Commission: Paul Krugman
* Let's Hear it, Mr. President: "Yes I Can!"
John Kerry Takes on Romney on the New Proposed Arms Treaty with the Russians
Let Steele Speak: E.J. Dionne Stands Up for the Right of Dissent During War
* What *To Kill a Mockingbird* Isn't: Allen Barra in the WSJournal, and a Comment from Me
E.J. Dionne Looking for More Fight from the Dems
Support Obama by Pushing Him: Katrina vanden Heuvel on What Progressives Should Do
Why don’t our regulators do a better job? James Surowiecki in the New Yorker
Education for the Soul: Martha Nussbaum in Harvard Magazine
* A Radio Show I Especially Commend to Your Attention
Second of Two Positive Takes on the Kagan Hearings: Jeffrey Rosen Says They Weren't at all Vapid
How Political Experts Rank our Presidents: News Report from the Guardian (UK)
* What's Important to Take from that 97 to 3 Climate Science Report
Soccer, Race, and the French Social Fabric: John Hoberman in Foreign Policy
First of Two Positive Takes on the Kagan Hearings: NYTimes Report
Fox News, Your Source for Misinformation on Oil Spill: Media Matters
* Specter Attacks Kagan for Vapidity: Sam Stein on Huffington, and Commentary from Me
* We Need Obama to Dig Deep for his Inner FDR
Ex-WashPo Blogger Wrong About Why He Was Wrong: Ari Melber in the Nation on the Dave Weigel Affair
On Climate Change, a Research Report on What those Most Expert in the Field Think
Now and Later: Another Presentation of Krugman's Main Argument about Fiscal Policy
* The Mystery of Obama's Relationship with Power
America needs an Afghan strategy, not an alibi: Henry Kissenger in the Washington Post
Elena Kagan Should Take on the Prevailing *Originalism* II: Justin Driver on the New Republic
Robert Kuttner Writes the Speech He'd Like Obama to Deliver on Recovery Policy
Elena Kagan Should Take on the Prevailing *Originalism* I: Justin Driver on the New Republic
Joe Barton's Gift to the Democrats: Outstanding Piece by William Saletan
* In Praise of Talking to Oneself
How Failure Became an Option: Timothy Egan in the NYTimes
Should Obama Fire McChrystal? Robert Dallek et al.
Prohibition Is a Lousy Way to Deal with Drugs: Johann Hari in Slate
Regulation Beats Lawsuits: Krugman Counters the Libertarian Argument
Afghan Policy Looking Doomed: William Galston in the New Republic
The Lesson of BP: Frances Moore Lappe on the Plutocratic Core
The Leadership of FDR-- IV: From William E. Leuchtenburg's THE FDR YEARS
Al Franken Blasts Supreme Court for Dismantling Legal Protections
Don't Blame the Dream of Home Ownership: Robert Kuttner on Huffington Post
* Wrong Beliefs Aren't Mostly about Stupidity
Afghanistan Banana Stand: A Question I'd Like to Raise
A Couple of Nuggets from Baker's Beat the Press, Plus a Bonus Item from Today's News
Why Our Reaction to the Oil Spill Terrifies Bradford Plumer
The Pleasure of Imagination II: Paul Bloom in the Chronicle of Higher Education
* Transformational Leadership Requires the Power of Inspiration: IV
* Obama and the Oil Spill: What Should America Want from Its Leader?
At Last, You Can Hear my Virginia Radio Show Live
Misery in North Korea: Sharon LaFraniere in the New York Times
The Leadership of FDR-- III: From William E. Leuchtenburg's THE FDR YEARS
Debunking a Right-Wing Myth about the Housing Bubble: Krugman
In the Original *Karate Kid,* It's not just Danny Who is Transformed: William Swansburg on Slate
* Transformational Leadership Requires the Power of Inspiration: III
Musings about Human Mother-and-Grandmotherhood
Krugman Increasingly Alarmed at *Crazy* Demand for Fiscal Austerity
The Leadership of FDR-- II: From William E. Leuchtenburg's THE FDR YEARS
Why Human Females So Far Outlive their Reproductive Lives: Bruce Bower in Science News
The Leadership of FDR-- I: From William E. Leuchtenburg's THE FDR YEARS
Puzzled by the Lack of Response to *Wisdom of the Body*
What Kagan Should Say: Doug Kendall and Jim Ryan
Germany's Dangerous Code of Silence: Anne Applebaum in the Washington Post
* Transformational Leadership Requires the Power of Inspiration: II
The Oil Spill and Questions about Obama's Way of Leading: Frank Rich in the NY Times
The Banking Showdown: Robert Kuttner on Huffington Post
Merchants of Doubt: (from Daily Kos) About an Important Book
* Transformational Leadership Requires the Power of Inspiration
Another Round on the *Obama and Goodness* Matter
The Pleasures of Imagination I: Paul Bloom in the Chronicle of Higher Education
The Obama and Goodness Question
Obama and the Chaos-vs.-Order Problem: Matt Bai in the NYTimes
* Sighs, Yawns, and the Wisdom of the Body
The Folly of the Deficit Hawks Has Become Conventional Wisdom: Paul Krugman's Blog
* On Oil, A Way Around the Climate-Change "Controversy"
Did The Postwar System Fail? Krugman Debunks More Mythology from the Right
Two Good Critiques of Obama on the Oil Spill: George Lakoff and Maureen Dowd
When Will the Religious Right Learn Humility? E.J. Dionne Reflects on Mark Souder's Downfall
How Can Obama Make this Oil Disaster Into an Opportunity?
Parties Change: From Paul Krugman's Blog
Matter Beats Anti-Matter: Another Interesting Report from Scientific Research
The Rasmussen Problem: Jonathan Chait on the New Republic
The Dalai Lama on *How to Overcome the Negative Force that is Opposing You*
Three Reasons a GOP Landslide Won't Happen: Paul Waldman on The American Prospect
The Stigmatization Of Bush-Blaming: Jonathan Chait
The Old Enemies: Krugman on the Corporate Power Arraying to Defeat Obama
* What's With Obama and the Oil Spill
I Can Be Heard on the Web Today on a Radio Show
* Open Letter to Keith Olbermann: Constructive Criticism for One of My Heroes
New British Government Begins to Roll Back Police-State Policies: Glenn Greenwald
A Third Excerpt from *The Tea Party Jacobins* by Mark Lilla
My Message to the *Anti-Obama Lefties* Has Created Quite a Stir on Opednews
* On Love and Preservation: The Story of My Love of Neutrogena Face Soap
Jeff Sessions*s Constitution: Scott Horton in Harper's
The Threat to Miranda: NYTimes Editorial (and Comment from Me)
Why the Left Has No Answer to the Right-Wing Lie Machine: Ernest Partridge on Truthout
Dismal Picture of How Things are Going in the Afghan War: Fred Kaplan
How U.S. Drug Policy Just Got Better: Harold Pollack in the New Republic
Job Creation and Politics Past, Present and Future: Ronald Brownstein in the National Journal
Obama More on the Attack: John Dickerson on the Timing of O*s More Partisan Rhetoric
More From *The Tea Party Jacobins* by Mark Lilla
Two Goodies from Dean Baker, One from Paul Krugman
* With Respect to Respect: An Exchange with Jim Oberg
Government Inaction and/or Wrong-Action: Paul Krugman and Dean Baker on the Roots of the Oil Spill
Advise and Wimp Out: Ruth Marcus on the Kagan Nomination
The Tea Party Jacobins: Mark Lilla in the New York Review of Books
Fear and Horror in Nazi Germany, 1942: More Passages from Klemperer's I WILL BEAR WITNESS
Chait Skewers Right on Obama's Supposed Deck-Stacking for Labor
* To Anti-Obamite Lefties: It Doesn't Matter If You're Right, You Still Need to Help Him Prevail
Have the Baby-Boomers Lived Like Grasshoppers? Dean Baker Slams Tom Friedman
Another View of the Pathology Possessing the Right: Gary Younge at the Guardian (UK)
Three Good Blog Entries from Krugman
* Good and Evil versus Mystic Oneness and Perfection: My Response to the Challenge from Hanu Man Ji
Immaculate misconception and the Supreme Court
The Rebirth of Regulation: Robert Reich
Christopher Lasch's Flawed Choice of Targets: From a Review Article by Alan Wolfe
Dems Shouldn't Envy the Repubs Their Tea Party: Paul Starr in The American Prospect
* A New Riff on My MAIN Insight: Good and Evil are Important and Illuminating Concepts
The Ongoing Ethical Scandals at Fox News: Report from Media Matters
Goodies from Dean Baker's BEAT THE PRESS
Reminder of Why the Individual Health Care Mandate is Necessary: Jonathan Cohn
* Patriotism and Every Man for Himself: A Challenge to the Conservative World View
If Only Arizona Were the Real Problem: Powerful Piece by Rich on the Rise of Nativist Anger
A World in which One Must Scream to Be Heard Fosters Extremism: Neil Gabler in Boston.com
Two Pithy Blog Entries from Krugman
Great Piece by Dionne on the Fight Over the Court the Dems Should Now Seek
Groupthink at National Review: David Frum on the Decline of Genuine Conservative Thought
Breathing While Undocumented: Linda Greenhouse on Arizona's Immigration Law
The Present Politics of Financial Reform: Robert Kuttner on Huffington Post
How Goes the Battle Under Obama
The Case Against Goldman: Hale *Bonddad* Stewart on FiveThirtyEight
NPR & Trust in Government: Robert Shetterly on Common Dreams
The Courts Must Protect the Weaker: Dahlia Lithwick on the Case the Dems Should Now Make
A Mighty Pale Tea: Charles Blow on the *Diversity* of the Tea Party
Obama Must Win the Message War on Wall Street Reform: David Corn
Worthy Thoughts from Krugman's Blog (and a Couple of Comments from Me)
Fraud at Last: Robert Kuttner on the Need for Deep Reform of the Financial System
Good News about the Earth's Forests: A Report from TheEarthConnection.org
The Right-Wing *Obama Is a Socialist* Smear, Debunked by AEI's Norman Ornstein
Pussy-footing Liberal-Speak Even from the Redoubtable Nina Totenberg
Could the Plane Crash Bury Stalinism Forever? Timothy Snyder Looks at the Weave of History
Getting in the Fighting Spirit for Judicial Nominations: mcjoan on Daily Kos
Crocodile Tears on Wall Street: Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
Illustrating the Costs of Obama's Failure to Confront the Right-Wing Lying
Obama's Admirable Patience: David Broder in the Washington Post
I WILL BEAR WITNESS: Passages from a Journal Kept During the Nazi Era
Economic Counsel from Three Worthy Sources from Abroad: Robert Kuttner Reports
Obama's Nuclear Summit: Invisible for Conservatives? David Korn on Politics Daily
Another *Entertainer*: Glenn Beck Described by Glenn Beck and by Bob Cesca
Religion and the Constitution: A Review Article by Scot Powe
The Death of Dawn Johnsen's Nomination: Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com
Krugman's Primer on Financial Reform
Is the U.S. Overly Redistributive? Tom Schaller Takes Down Jonah Goldberg on FiveThirtyEight.com
Worrisome Evidence Visible Right Here on NSB
A Method to Republican *Madness*: Robert Parry on Consortium News
Why Obama Opened the Way to Drilling: A Plausible Interpretation from Steve Benen
Neo-Confederate History Month: Ed Kilgore Confronts Gov. McConnell of Virginia
Court Ruling on Wiretapping: NY Times Editorial
Preparing for Global Warming: More from Piltz on Climate Change
Something Funny: Contest Results from THE WEEK
Taking the Country Back! A Disgraceful Headline in My Local Newspaper
The Fed in Hot Water: Robert Reich on Some Dubious Fed Dealings
What Would Constitute a *Win* for the Democrats in November? Nate Silver's Interesting Analysis
The Decline of Principle in American Politics: Glenn Greenwald Draws a Contrast
Why Is Obama Opening Up New Areas For Offshore Drilling? Bradford Plumer on the New Republic
The Great Trick of Making Yellow Zonkers Disappear: Great Image from Paul Krugman
America Needs Genuine Conservativism (Not What the Right is Dishing Up Now): E.J. Dionne
Big Radio Commentary by Me Can Be Heard on the Web Friday
"Politics as Usual"? Help Me Understand this Misperception
Three-fold Impact on Obama of the Health Care Success: Edward Luce in the Financial Times (UK)
How's Granny Gonna Be? Questions from this Morning's Radio Show
Did Bush Knowingly Mislead the U.S. Into War With Iraq?: David Corn on Politics Daily
Taking Responsibility for Political Violence: Robert Creamer on Huffington Post
Suddenly, Finance Reform Moves Forward: Noam Scheiber in the New Republic
Taking on China: Krugman Argues for Hardball on China's Currency Undervaluation
Turning *Texas Education* Into an Oxymoron: Jim Hightower on Truthout
Thank You to Those Who Responded to My Request for Help
Natural Advantage: DarkSyde on Science vs. Lies on Climate Change
A Tribute to Nancy Pelosi's Political Achievement: Harold Meyerson in the Los Angeles Times
A Few Thoughts on the State of the Political Battle
Constitutionality of Mandatory Insurance? Tom Schaller on FiveThirtyEight
Which Would Be Scarier, That They're Liars or that They're Crazy?
The Florida Senate Race as Seen by Kos
Waterloo: David Frum on Whose Downfall This Was
True Colors: William Rivers Pitt on Some Political Stupidities and Pathologies
Health Reform Repeal and the Specter of Alf Landon: Dana Milbank in the WashPost
Our Experience of Art and Reality: James Bowman on the Power of the Film AVATAR
The Polls on Health Care Show a World Different from Welder's
Obama Pours it On: Video of Obama Campaigning for Health Care at George Mason University
Obama to Meet with House Democrats: Will it Be Televised?
John Roberts, Perfect Enemy for Obama: Jeffrey Rosen in the New Republic
What Obama is Actually Trying to Do in Israel: Jeffrey Goldberg in the Atlantic
The Constitutional Amendment America Needs: Lawrence Lessig in The New Republic
Climate-Change Denial as an O.J. Moment: Bill McKibben
The Different Universes of Dems and Reps: Paul Krugman in the Aftermath of the Bunning Blockade
Misplaced Even-Handedness: One Illustration from Newsweek
Glenn Beck's Misguided Attack on Churches that Advocate *Social Justice*: Amy Sullivan on Time.com
What Ireland Shows about the Causes of the Financial Crisis: Paul Krugman in the New York Times
Thought Inevitably Occurs in --and is Shaped by-- a Context: More from Toulmin's COSMOPOLIS
We Can*t Wish Away Climate Change: Strong Piece from Al Gore
Consumer Financial Protection Bill as Secret Weapon for Dems? David Corn on Politics Daily
What Does it Mean to be Free? A Question for Passover
Why Don't Honest Journalists Take on Roger Ailes and Fox News: Howell Raines in the Washington Post
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: How Principles of *Symmetry* Revolutionized Physics
Final Thoughts on/from THE BIRTH OF FASCIST IDEOLOGY
Protecting Consumers as an Essential for Financial Reform: An Eloquent Argument from Paul Krugman
More Than Words: Dahlia Lithwick on Liz Cheney's Attack on Fundamental Principles of American Law
The Politics of Violence: An Instance of One Dimension of Today's Darkness
Margolis is Wrong in Letting Yoo and Bybee Off the Hook: David Luban
I Can Be Heard Today on the Internet: A Radio Interview
The German Economic Model Has Done OK: Eamonn Fingleton on The American Prospect
Embarrassed by the Attorney General of Virginia: My Letter to the Editor Re Climate Change
Tweaking the RNC's Fundraising Strategy: Kevin Huffman in the Washington Post
The Second, More Combative Year of Obama's Presidency Starts Now: John B. Judis in the New Republic
The Chest-Thumping Posture: A Visitor from the Right Celebrates Our Impending Electoral Rejection
The Consciousness-Body Interaction: A Most Interesting New Illustration
Democracy Should Rule Economy: Fine Michael Sandel Essay
Yoo and Bybee Let Off the Hook: Decision Criticized by the New York Times
The Real Accomplishment of the Health Care Summit: Obama Showed He Has a Pair
Is It Cowardice? Wondering about Why Liberalism in America has Avoided Confronting this Dark Force
Some Heresies in the Unfolding of Modern Thought: Passages from Toulmin's COSMOPOLIS
One Problem with the Media: Robert Reich on How the Search for Ratings Degrades Discourse
The Role of Intellectuals in the Rise of Fascism in Europe: From Sternhell's Book
Reports of Bullying Buoy the Prospects of Britain's PM Brown:
Has a Shakeup Started in Washington? William Rivers Pitt on Truthout
Is It Me, or Has the Spirit in America Been on Hold Lately?
Metaphors and Frames and Politics: More Insights from George Lakoff's Perspective
Snowmageddon and Climate Change: Bradford Plumer in the New Republic
The DOJ Report on the Yoo-Bybee Torture Memos: Jason Leopold Reports on Truthout
How Fascism Revised Socialism: From THE BIRTH OF FASCIST IDEOLOGY
Money Isn't Speech and Corporations Aren't People: David Kairys on Slate.com
How to Walk the Fiscal Tightrope Before Us: Martin Wolf in the Financial Times
In a Free Society, Truth Should be Able to Defeat Lies
Palin as Populist, Palin as Elitist: Pieces by George Will and Leon Wieseltier
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: An Unreasonable Kind of Rationality
Castellio's Plea for Toleration: From Zweig's THE RIGHT TO HERESY
Cheney Exposes Torture Conspiracy: Robert Parry on Consortium News
Karaoke Killings in the Philippines around Sinatra Song: Report in the NY Times
Time for Progressive Democrats to Play Hardball: Robert Kuttner on Huffington Post
Two Issues that Arose on the Radio Show Today
Who is to be Allowed to Call God *Allah*? Christopher Hitchens on Strife in Malaysia
The Birth of Fascist Ideology: Passages from a Book by Zeev Sternhell
A Farewell from One of NSB's Most Treasured Members
Right-Wing Hypocrisy on Human Rights: Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com
It's Democratic Cowardice That's Now the Biggest Problem: Paul Waldman on The American Prospect
OPINIONS ON LESS WEIGHTY MATTERS: The Great Toilet Seat Controversy
2009 Most Partisan Year Ever: Report from CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY
David Spangler Addresses the Question of an *It* Called *Evil*
Growing Income Inequality in America: Help Me, Please, Prepare for a Radio Show
CO2 Trade War Hits Midwest: Joshua Frank on Truthout
The Right to Heresy: Stefan Zweig on a Hero Who Stood Up to Calvin's Oppressive Regime in Geneva
Changing the Filibuster Rule: Senator Tom Udall on Huffington Post
Why Are Liberals So Bad at Fighting? A Discussion Question
The Winter of America's Discontent: Tim Rutten on the Malfunctioning U.S. Political System
Playing with Logic: Some Jewish Jokes I Like
BEAUTY: More Thoughts on Symmetries and Beauty
Income Inequality and Its Consequences: Meteor Blades on Daily Kos
Obama's SOTU Confrontation with the Supremes: Jeffrey Rosen in The New Republic
There IS an *IT*! Should We Call It *Evil*?
Obama Has Already Changed Our Government More than You Think: John Judis at the New Republic
The Fears of the White Working Class and Obama's Miscalculations: Thomas B. Edsall
The Gang of Five, and How They Nearly Ruined Us: Daniel Gross on Slate.com
World Worries Over China's New Tone: News Report in the Wash Post
Stefan Zweig on the Life of Marie Antoinette: How She Perceived the French Revolution
Fat Years and Lean: Keynsian Fiscal Policy Explained for Religious Conservatives
Help Me Please on These Two Points
The Intellectual Dishonesty of the Court Majority: Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post
BEAUTY: The Mathematical Idea of Symmetry
Here's a Great Idea for Obama for Tonight (UPDATED post-speech)
Obama's Need to Reboot: Frank Rich in the New York Times
OPINIONS ON LESS WEIGHTY MATTERS: My Suggestion to Netflix
Please Help Me Prepare for a Radio Show about the Tea-Party Movement
My Own Best Counsel to Obama on his State of the Union Address
What Should Obama Do in this Wednesday's State of the Union Address?
Corporate Personhood Should Be Banned: Ralph Nader Proposes a Constitutional Amendment
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Intelligent Collective Decision-Making of the Swarm
Stefan Zweig on Marie Antoinette: How Her Historical Trauma Made Her Grow
BEAUTY: What This Description of Choral Beauty Shows Us
Religion's Connection to Nationalism: From Huntington*s *Who Are We?*
The Supremes' Unwarranted Intrusion into California's Gay Marriage Case: Emily Bazelon on Slate.com
Seeing Things Whole: Genes Working as Networks
Social Democracy Works in Europe: Paul Krugman Lances another Right-Wing Myth
Science and Politics in America: Paul Waldman in the American Prospect
What Obama Should Convey to the Voters of Massachusetts This Weekend
Riff on the Idea of the *Good Warrior*
Can We Fight Evil Without Creating More Endarkenment?
Divorce and Gay Marriage Bans Go Together: Nate Silver Presents Some Interesting Data
One Nation? Samuel Huntington's Concern in *WHO ARE WE?*
Overcoming the Copenhagen Failure: Joseph Stiglitz in the Capital Times
Reid's Comments-- Bad Politics but Accurate Sociology: Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post
Who’s Sleeping Now? Thomas Friedman on China, the U.S., and the Energy Technology Revolution
Don't Panic: Fareed Zakaria Reminds, Fear is al-Qaeda's Real Goal
BEAUTY: A Collaborative Project
The Criminalization of Protest: Radley Balko in Reason Magazine
Blessed are the Cheesemakers: A Piece about *Artisanal* Cheese Culture
Wondering about Obama's Relationship to the *Law* and "The Rule of Law*
Goodies from Dean Baker*s *Beat the Press* Round-up
The Need to Reform the Senate: Paul Krugman
A Religious Dimension to Environmentalism? Nothing Ridiculous About It
What to Watch for in the Health Care Reform Conference: Paul Waldman in the American Prospect
If You Think Obama Should Get My *Dear President Obama* Message...: An Action You Can Take
Global Resurgence of Religion: From Huntington's *Who Are We?*
Is Rasmussen's Polling Biased? Nate Silver on FiveThirtyEight.com
As the World Turns: Matthew Yglesias Assesses the First Year of Obama Foreign Policy
Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us: A Discussion My *Google Alert* Brought to My Attention
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Connection Through The Generations
The Decade When the U.S. Lost its Way: E.J. Dionne in the Washington Post
In the Wake of *Dear President Obama* Appearing in the Baltimore Sun
Power Fosters Hypocrisy: Findings Reported by World-Science.Net
The Abortion Issue in the Health-Care Bill Is Bridgeable: William Saletan on Slate
Military Courage: Thoughts from Marc Bloch, from His Experiences in the French Army in World War I
Why We're Getting More Terrorist Threats Now: A Hypothesis
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Need for a Re-Integration of the Evolutionary Picture of the Tree of Life
Major Statement from Me: Here's the Spiritual Core of Our Moment, As I See It
Who Are We? Samuel Huntington Worries About What Will Hold the U.S. Together as a Nation
Disagreement About What it Means to Support Obama: An Exchange Between Sam Gruen and Me
*SEEING THINGS WHOLE*: Revisiting the Intro that Launched the Project
If I Could Give President Obama a Message, in 800 Words
America's Regression: Glenn Greenwald on American Attitudes Toward Torture
What to Make of the Copenhagen Accord: Bradford Plumer in the New Republic
The Post-Nazi Transformation of the German Mentality: First Installment from the Book *AFTER HITLER*
Thoughts on Being Wrong (or Right) About Obama
The Beneficial and Injurious Consequences of the Progressive *Kill Bill* Strategy: Nate Silver
What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy? Tony Judt in the New York Review
*Climategate* Doesn't Affect Strong Scientific Consensus, Says Factcheck.org in Newsweek
Sinking Poll Numbers for Obama and the Dems: NBC/WSJ Poll
What Public Option Supporters Won: Jonathan Cohn in the New Republic
Heroic Sadism in Southern Culture: Another Vivid Passage from W. J. Cash's THE MIND OF THE SOUTH
Climate Rage: Paul Krugman from His Blog
What the Democrats Should Say About Lieberman
Joe Lieberman: Let's not make a deal! Ezra Klein on the Moral Defect on Display by Joe Lieberman
Neighborliness, Community, and the Calling Out of the Right-Wing Evil
End of Whose History? Kishore Mahbubani in the New York Times
Are Republicans Serious About Fixing Health Care? Jacob Weisberg on Slate.com Says No
Obama's Ambitious Effort to Re-Orient American Foreign Policy: Fareed Zakaria in Newsweek
Something Unprecedented: Paul Krugman on the New Prominence of Old Paranoia
Testosterone's *Moral* Effects: More Complicated than You*d Think
Uncertainty and Prudence in the Matter of Climate Change
Black in the Age of Obama: Charles Blow in the New York Times
America Without a Middle Class: Elizabeth Warren on Huffington Post
Is Obama Getting Wise to the Need to Call Out this Evil?
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Disintegration in Fin-De-Siecle Vienna
In Polls, Much Opposition to Health Care Plan Is From Left: Nate Silver in FiveThirtyEight.com
Climate Change *Smear Campaign*: Report from Reuters
Reform or Else: Paul Krugman on the Fiscal Necessity of Health Care Reform
Football as an Expression of the Real Character of America: Wilcomb E. Washburn in the New Republic
A Cloud Still Hangs Over Bhopal: Suketu Mehta in the New York Times
Review of Barbara Ehreinreich*s *Bright-Sided*: Susan G on Daily Kos
In Praise of Obama's First-Year Achievements: Jacob Weisberg on Slate.com
Corporate Campaigns Manufacture Scientific Doubt: David Michaels in Science News
Assessing the Goldstone Report and Israel's Conduct in Gaza: Moshe Halbertal in the New Republic
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: On Putting Neighbor Back into Neighborhood
The Causes of Deficits Matter: Paul Krugman from His Blog
*See No Evil* Remains the Key Problem: II-- Matching the Intensity of Evil
Biodiversity Loss is Earth's Tragedy: James Randerson in the Guardian
As Health-Care Reform Limps toward the Finish Line: Jonathan Cohn in the New Republic
Swiss Vote to Ban Construction of Minarets on mosques
*See No Evil* Remains the Key Problem: I
Voila! Here's How the Climate Change Denial Folly Looks
Our Right Not to Deal with Rude Kids: Amy Alkon in the Los Angeles Times
Corporations and the Average American: What If the Government Played No Role?
A Legacy of Bad Law: David Feige on the Real Cost of Trying KSM
Obama's thankless Thanksgiving: E. J. Dionne in the Washington Post
The Importance of Obama's Coming Afghanistan Announcement
Visceral Has Its Value: Maureen Dowd Contrasting Palin and Obama
More Jobs is the Route to Deficit Reduction: Pelosi Advocates Moving toward a Jobs Bill
Too Big to Block? Why Obama Must Stop the Comcast-NBC Merger: Josh Silver in the Washington Post
Europe and Its Muslims: Review Article by Anne Applebaum
Iraq Is Not Becoming an Extension of Iran: Gary Sick in the Daily Beast
Obama's Anzio: Krugman Continues to Fear that Obama's Economic Over-Caution Will be His Undoing
Religious Images Afford Believers Protection from Pain: Research Reported in Science News
Welder and Me Going Toe-to-Toe on What's Happening on the Right
GOP Obstructionism in the Senate: E.J. Dionne in the Washington Post
Hostage-Takers in the Senate: Dean Baker on an Upcoming Showdown around Raising the Debt Limit
10 Reasons That Sarah Palin Could Win the Republican Nomination: Nate Silver in FiveThirtyEight.com
I Can Be Heard on the Internet Tonight
Obama’s Delusion: David Bromwich
The Worst is yet to Come: Roubini Predicts Unemployment Will Get Worse Before Better
The Nature of Obama's Afghanistan Decision-Making: Fred Kaplan on Slate.com
What's Fueling the Average American Right-Wingers? A Discussion Question
One Morsel from Dean Baker, Two from Paul Krugman
This is Your Brain on GPS: Alex Hutchinson in The Walrus
Iran's Moves Reveal Leadership Rift: Gerald F. Seib in the Wall Street Journal
Is the House Bill Better or Worse than Nothing? Jonathan Cohn in the New Republic
How Might Obama Come Back into Strength?
On Problems Regarding U.S. Policy on Climate Change: Rick Piltz on Eurozine
Pentagon Used Psychological Operation on US Public, Documents Show: Brad Jacobson in Raw Story
One Nation, Under Illusion: Neil Gabler in the Boston Globe
Krugman Refutes Two Bogus Right-Wing Economic Arguments
Islam Struggles with Evolution: Drake Bennett on Boston.com
Gorbachev Interviewed in the Nation
Obama's Foreign Policy Report Card: Juan Cole on Salon.com
The Fate of Gaia: How James Lovelock Now Sees It
Limbaugh and Race: Jonathan Chait in the New Republic
California-- Abundance and Mal-Distribution: Rebecca Solnit in the Los Angeles Times
Goodies from Dean Baker's BEAT THE PRESS ROUND-UP
Product Roll-Out: E.J. Dionne on the Biggest Health Care Challenge Remaining for Congress
Explaining the Animosities of the Right: One of My *Challenging the Conservatives* Pieces
The Defining Moment: Paul Krugman on the Crunch Time on Health Care Reform
Iran: Can Obama Play Hardball? Robert Kagan in the Washington Post
Why Neanderthals Went Extinct: Sharon Begley in Newsweek
Poster Boy for Canadian Health System: Stephen Lautens in the Calgary Sun
The Ph. D. Problem: Louis Menand in Harvard Magazine
Politics as Religion in America: Neil Gabler in the Los Angeles Times
Muddling Through in Afghanistan: How One Knowledgeable Brit Sees the Situation
Just Say No To Blasphemy Laws: Jonathan Turley Criticizes an Obama Administration Move
Mismanaged Care: Another Passage from Jerome Groopman's HOW DOCTORS THINK
Gov. Sanford and Sacred Eros: Revisiting a Previous Topic
The Senate, Obama, and the Public Option: Jonathan Cohn on the State of Play
Juicy Morsels from Dean Baker's BEAT THE PRESS ROUND-UP (And One Tid-Bit from Me)
The Aura Strikes Back: Paul Krugman on How the Sense of Inevitability Now Favors the Democrats
Russia Against Napoleon: Review of of a New Book
Who You Calling Deranged? Jonathan Chait in the New Republic on the Isolation of the Republican Base
1989! Timothy Garton Ash on the Year Europe Changed History
It is the Republicans --Not Obama-- Who Are Extreme: Another of My Two-Minute Challenges
More on the GOP as a Regional (Southern) Party: Kos Reports on Latest ABC/Washington Post Poll
Maybe It's a Blessing: Facing Evil Till We Get It Right
Dealing with Uncertainty, Part II: The Lessons from Medicine (in Groopman's HOW DOCTORS THINK)
The Banks are not All Right: Paul Krugman in the New York Times
Dealing with Uncertainty, Part I: The Lessons from Medicine (in Groopman's HOW DOCTORS THINK)
How Moody's Sold Ratings, Sold Out Investors: Report in McClatchy Newspapers
Getting to 'Yes' With Olympia Snowe: E. J. Dionne in the Washington Post
Baseball, Too, Should Use Instant Replay: Jesse Zwick in the New Republic
Why Is Blackmail Wrong? Lizzie Widdicombe Raises an Interesting Question in the New Yorker
McChrystal and Obama and the Problem of MacArthurism: David Greenberg on Slate.com
No Doubt Obama Deserves the Nobel! View from the French Philosopher, Bernard-Henri Levy
On the Practice of Primary-Care Medicine: Jerome Groopman from His Book HOW DOCTORS THINK
U.S. Science Remains Far From Its Rightful Place: Interview of Rep. Rush Holt in Science News
The Politics of Spite: Paul Krugman in the New York Times
The One-Party South: Historical Perspective from THE MIND OF THE SOUTH (by Cash)
The White House Treats Fox News as Partisan Foe: Ari Melber on Huffington Post
Post-Mortem on the Russian-Georgian War of 2008: Excellent Account by Ronald D. Asmus
Obama's Nobel Peace Prize: What I Think of It
Red State vs. Blue State Moralities: Can You Help Gather this Information?
Saved from Despair: A Passage from THE AGE OF WONDER
Obama and the Dalai Lama: Michelle Goldberg in The American Prospect
*This is It!* Thoughts on Profundity and the Obvious from My Book, LIVING POSTHUMOUSLY
Relitigating Summers and Bank Nationalization: Noam Scheiber in the New Republic
Mission Re-Definition: Help Me Take This Viral
The Trauma of Inflation in Germany: Excerpts from Zweig's *The World of Yesterday*
No Rush to Escalate: E.J. Dionne on the Afghanistan Decision-Making
Coming Tomorrow: An Important Posting on *Mission Re-Definition*
Politics Normal or Abnormal: Challenge to the Guys at WSVA
Obama and China: Vandalism or Vision: Robert Borosage on Huffington Post
A Couple of By-the-Way Questions I'd Appreciate Help On
The Age of Eco-Angst: Daniel Goleman in the New York Times
The True Cost of Fiscal Stimulus: Paul Krugman
Thanks to You Who Responded to My *Pitch*
Should Obama Be Pitching to Get the Olympics? Discussion Question (I Vote No)
Slaves to Ideology? Challenge to the Conservatives on Health Care
Perks for *Seniors*: Are They Warranted? (A Discussion Question)
Could the Health-Care Solution be this Simple: Thom Hartman Puts Forward a *Modest Proposal*
CIA Torturers Running Scared: Ray McGovern on Consortium News
Schmookler on New Dimensions Radio: Hear It Here (Interview Broadcast in 2006)
Climate Change, the Next Arena for GOP Lies: Paul Krugman
Joe Biden's Switch from Hawk to Skeptic on Afghanistan: Michael Crowley in The New Republic
Obama Says Don't Run, NY Gov Patterson Says Yes I Will: What Obama's Trying to Do
The Good Family Man: The Conservatives Can't Have it Both Ways
Future Unknown: From *The World of Yesterday* By Stefan Zweig
First They Came for the Marlboros: Jacob Weisberg on the Proper Limits to the *Nanny State*
I Can Be Heard Tonight on Internet Radio
Shift Happens: Some of Obama's Droop Explained by the *Morale Curve* Says Layne Longfellow
What's Happening To Women's Happiness? Marcus Buckingham on Huffington Post
Baucus and the Threshold: Paul Krugman on Where Health Care Reform Might Go from Here
Using the Law for the Public Interest: Thoughts about Jerry Brown, Hero
How to Talk to Iran: Roger Cohen in the New York Times
Government Tends Toward Corruption, and Therefore? Why I Part Paths with the Libertarian Answer
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Brains and Cities Develop Similiarly
Dems Should Impose Anti-Filibuster Discipline: Ed Kilgore in the New Republic
High-Five Nation: David Brooks in the New York Times
More Fundamental than Race: My Critique of the Excellent Waldman Essay Posted Here Earlier
Stuff Some White People Don't Like: Paul Waldman in The American Prospect
Anger of Right-Wing Protesters Mis-Directed: Glenn Greenwald
Two Issues from My Radio Show This Morning: I'd Appreciate Your Help
Science and the Discovery of the Un-Intimate Universe: A Passage from *The Age of Wonder*
Rescuing *Government Action* from the Paranoia of the Right: Roy Ulrich on Common Dreams
THE PARABLE OF THE TRIBES After a Quarter Century: A Revision
Issues of Artificial Enhancements: Passages from an Essay by David Edmonds
Rich Passages from Paul Krugman's Recent Blog Entries
Income Inequality Is At An All-Time High in U.S.: Report on a Study by Professor Emmanuel Saez
Creative Grokking and the Sacred
A Culture of Cruelty: Henry A. Giroux in Truthout
What I Liked in Obama's Talk Tonight
A Trigger-- With Teeth? Nate Silver Offers a Creative Way to Gain Strength through Compromise
Rising Craziness in America: I. Obama Has to Address It (Revisited)
Suffering and Pain, Solace and Joy: How Are You Doing?
Liberty and Tyranny Battle Over the Internet: Eli Lake in The New Republic
Cheney Manipulates Media, Media Enable Cheney: Dan Froomkin on Huffington Post
This Morning's Technical Problem Has Been Fixed
Why Health Insurance Reform Will Pass This Fall: Robert Creamer on Huffington Post
A Paradox in Public Views of Health Care: Excellent Piece by Nicholas Kristof in the NYTimes
We're about to Learn Something Important about Obama
All-Star Pithy Comments from Krugman's Blog
Nate Silver's Illuminating Musings on Health-Care Reform Strategy
Is Afghanistan Indeed a *Necessary War*?
New Windows on the Human Journey
How Important is this Currently-Measured *Public Opinion* Anyway?
Seventh Piece: Holding the Bushites Accountable
Majority Rule on Health Care Reform: Clear Analysis from a New York Times Editorial
Will Teddy Speak One More Time from the Grave?
What's Wrong With American Medicine? Andrew Weil on Huffington Post
Facing Suffering: Another Passage from THE WISE HEART
What Harry Truman Tried to Do About Health Care in November, 1945
Sixth Piece: Wielding the Sword on Behalf of the Moral and Spiritual Force
About Changing the Law to Fill Kennedy's Seat Right Away
You Can't Correct Misinformation: Counter-Intuitive Advice for Obama on the *Death Panel* Rumors
Fourth Piece: Are You Being Guided, Mr. President, by the Wrong Advisor?
Third Piece: How to Put the Force Behind Health-Care Reform
All the President’s Zombies: Krugman on Some Disproven Notions that Won't Die
Second Piece: Re-Connect with the Force from Whence Came Your Power, Mr. President
First Piece: Why It's Clear, Mr. President, You've Made an Important Strategic Error
A Story of Mindfulness: Another Tale from THE WISE HEART
Watch This Space: Something's Coming
The Health Implications of Optimism/Pessimism: A Research Report from WebMD
Obama’s Trust Problem: Krugman in the NTY, and ABS Commentary
Is Paul Starr Right that It's Necessary, and Worthwhile, to Sacrifice the Public Option?
Never Trust Those Liars Again: Another Challenge to My Radio Show Audience
Obama's Dreams From His Mother: Michael R. Dove in the New York Times
Why U.S. Diplomacy Will Fail With Iran: Edward Luttwak in the WSJ, and an ABS Critique
Crazy as a Preexisting Condition in America: Rick Perlstein in the Washington Post
*Us Against Them* Thinking: More Passages from *The Pity of it All*
Life After the Death of the Public Option: Nate Silver on the State of Play with Health Care Reform
Collisions with the Blind: Another Passage from *The Wise Heart*
There's More to Health than Health Care: Report by Carrie Peyton Dahlberg
Other Countries, Same Pattern of Hate Speech Driving Violent Action
It Takes All Kinds: The Idea of Moral Ecology
Announcement: Between Now and Friday Evening...
Bi-Partisanship? Why Does this Idea Persist?
Health Care's Public Perception Malady: Paul Waldman on The American Prospect
Optimism as a Spiritual Condition
Properly Calibrated Response Re North Korea: News Report Plus ABS Commentary
History and the Question of Inevitability: Passages from *The Pity of It All*
Abandon the Rope-a-Dope, Obama
Media Complicity in Whopper Lies about Health Care Reform: Dean Baker
The Ascent of George Washington: A Sobering Assessment of Our First President
Worried About the Christians? An Exchange from OpedNews
The Remarkable Heinrich Heine: Some Intense Passages from *The Pity of It All*
How Morality Enters into Game Theoretical Calculations: Revisiting the Defectors/Cooperators Dilemma
The Wise Heart: Two Little Stories from a New Book by Jack Kornfield
The Character of Barack Obama: A Critique from David Bromwich
About My Radio Show this Morning on *The Toxic Stench of Hateful Lies*
Is Pessimism Wisdom? An Exchange Between Father and Son
The Toxic Stench of Hateful Lies
Liberty as a Fundamental American Value, Not an *Un-Value*
Schmookler and the Anarchists III: A (Semi-Famous) Exchange from the 1980s
Paul Krugman Refutes the *Anti-Speculation* Case Against Cap and Trade
The *What a Planet!* Experience
What I Hope Will Happen with the Peace Beer at the White House Today
Health, American-Style: Jacob Weisberg on Slate.com
Hear My Most Recent Radio Show Here: Judicial Activism Discussed
Retiring Senator Voinovich Unloads on His Regional Rump Party: Kos on DailyKos
Dean Baker Beats the Press Some More
The Spirit of the Christians? Another Possible Radio Show
Nate Silver's Advice to the Blue Dog Dems on Health Care
Schmookler and the Anarchists II: A (Semi-Famous) Exchange from the 1980s
In Other Words IV: Some Choice Untranslatable Terms from Other Languages
On Liberty at 150: Andrew Norton Reviews the Famous Book by John Stuart Mill
The Psychiatrist Under the Table: Thoughts About Therapy from Ronald Pies
Schmookler and the Anarchists I: A (Semi-Famous) Exchange from the 1980s
Obama Speaking Tonight: And Here's a Note I Wrote Two Days Ago about Such a Speech
Rumors of the Demise of ObamaCare Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: Nate Silver on FiveThirtyEight
The Traditional Meaning of *Marriage* and the Desire of Gays: An Exchange on NSB
Obama Starts Fighting Back: Is It Too Late?
Prelude to the Series, "Schmookler and the Anarchists"
Questions for the Attorney General: Michael Isikoff in Newsweek
The Evolution of Spite: Article in The New Scientist
HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? Report on Some Interesting Research
In Other Words III: Some Choice Untranslatable Terms from Other Languages
Judicial Activism on the Right: Some Choice and Pertinent Passages
Two-Parter on the Issue of a Second Stimulus: Dean Baker and Me
It Takes All Kinds: Game Theoretical Illumination of the Evolution of Intra-Species Diversity
Sotomayor Plays It Safe: Emily Brazelon on Slate.com
Briefing on the Show for Those Who Might Wish to Call In
Sarah Palin Broke the G.O.P. and Now She Owns It: Frank Rich in the New York Times
House Overwhelmingly Rejects Obama Signing Statement: News Report from TheHill
News Flash! The Radio Show Changed Yet Again. Your Prep Help Requested.
A Lesson on Global Warming: New York Times Editorial
The *Select Few Who Get Things Done*: Moyers and Winship on the Corruption in Washington
My Revised Plan for this Thursday's Radio Show
The Misuse of the Biblical Story of Onan
The Future of American Health Insurance: It Works, says the CBO and Paul Krugman
Do Presidents Really Need the Intelligence Community to Be Happy With Them?
"You Have Only the Future to Win": Speech by David Davis (in the UK) on the Defense of Liberty
Tired of Talking about Obama: His Approach Does not Inspire Me Enough
In Search of Dignity: David Brooks in the New York Times
What in History Most Disturbs You? Discussion Question PLUS
In Other Words # 2: Some Choice Untranslatable Terms from Other Languages
How the Press Misstates the Economics: Some Good Items from Dean Baker's *Beat the Press*
The Body and the Sacred, or, Mark Sanford's Dilemma and the Quest for the Good: III
The Fretting Over Health Care Reform: Paul Waldman in The American Prospect
A Funny Little Story from My Day
The Ways Placebos Work: From an Essay in SKEPTIC by Dr. Harriet Hall
What the Nixon tapes tell us about the Republican Party: Christopher Hitchens on Slate.com
How Do You Decide Whom to Marry? A Funny Compendium of Kids' Saying the Darnedest Things
Mark Sanford's Dilemma and the Quest for the Good: II
Critique of the Court's Ricci Decision: Drew Westen on The New Republic
Mark Sanford's Dilemma and the Quest for the Good: I
Betraying the Planet: Paul Krugman in the NYTimes
Defectors and Cooperators: Illuminating Issues in America Today
In Other Words # 1: Some Choice Untranslatable Terms from Other Languages
Obama's Cairo Speech and the Changes in the Middle East: Gershom Gorenberg in The American Prospect
Sanford Should Apologize for How He Judged Others' Morals: Cenk Uygur on Huffington Post
What Obama Must Do to Save Universal Health Care: Robert Reich on The Arena
The Politics of Revulsion: Research Findings Regarding Disgust and Political Orientation
Stranger in a Familiar Land: The Introduction to My Book, *The Illusion of Choice*
The Sexual Scandals of Our Politicians: What's Worth Saying?
Court Declares Illegal the Strip-Search of 13 Year-Old
The Anti-Gay-Marriage Non-Argument: Jonathan Chait in the New Republic
Hoping for Audacity: Drew Westen Questioning Obama's Strategy
Hate Speech Right and Left? A Reader Thinks He Sees a Double Standard
A Brief Report on Yesterday's Radio Show
The Sonia Sotomayor You Don't Know: Jeffrey Rosen in the New Republic
Worst. Damage Control. Ever. Nate Silver on the Question of Election Fraud in Iran
House Revives Some Health Care Hopes the Senate's Been Killing: Ryan Grim on Huffington Post
Tuesday's Radio Show: Official Notification of Topic, Time, Phone Numbers, Customs and Manners
An Appalling Ruling from the Supreme Court: NYTimes Editorial
Discussion of the Iranian Situation: Daniel W. Dresner on ForeignPolicy.com
What Does it Mean Not to be Hoping for these Iranian Protestors?
What To Make Of The Russian Media’s Reaction To Iran? Julia Ioffe in The New Republic
Obama and Iran's Elections: An Interpretation (By Me)
As Ye Sow: Some Lessons from *Prisoner's Dilemma* Research
Health Insurance Plan Is Great Politics for Democrats: Robert Creamer on Huffington Post
America’s Sea of Red Ink Was Years in the Making: David Leonhardt in the New York Times
Good News A Propos the Radio Show
Say No to Censorship: Washington Post Editorial Against Chinese Restrictions on the Internet
Whither the Iranian Protests? Maya Schenwar on Truthout
GOP Activist Calls Gorilla One of Michelle's 'Ancestors': Meteor Blades on Daily Kos
Keeping Them Honest: Paul Krugman on Health Care Reform and the Insurance Industry
Stealing the Iranian Election: Juan Cole on Truthout
A Father's Mortification at Growing Old
GOP Smear Campaign vs. Sotomeyer Fails: Greg Dworkin on the Arena
Iran Awakens Yet Again: Roger Cohen in the New York Times
A Unified Theory of Obama: Jonathan Chait in the New Republic
How to Deal with the Pathological Spirit on the Right?: Sharing My Dilemma
The Importance of How We Leave Iraq: Fareed Zakaria in Newsweek
Obama to Forge a Greater Role on Health Care
What's Going to Become of the Republican Party? A Discussion Question
Animals Possess a Sense of Morality: Science Report in Telegraph (UK)
Cooperation and Conflict in Obama's Cairo Speech: Aaron Zelinsky in the Huffington Post
YOU ARE BRILLIANT AND THE EARTH IS HIRING: Paul Hawken to Some College Grads
The Media Attend to the Right and Ignore the Left: E.J. Dionne on How the Debate Gets Skewed
"Memento Mori": Some Wonderings About Death
Testing Our Beliefs: An Informative, Entertaining Video (A TED Talk)
Empathy? It's Just a Question of *With Whom?* Adam Serwer in The American Prospect
Revisiting "Revisiting the 'Muddle Through Scenario'"
The Roots of Today's Financial Crisis Lie in the Reagan Years: Paul Krugman in the NYTimes
The Great Deflector: How Obama Stays Out of the Fray (Cottle at TNR)
Who Is to Blame for the Next Attack? Frank Rich in the New York Times
A Possible Logjam-Breaking Move for Obama to Make on the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
High Expectations for Obama's Speech in Egypt: James Zogby on Huffington Post
Obama's Center-Left Two-Step: E.J. Dionne's Interpretation of Obama's Political Strategy
How the Internet Helped a Canadian Mag Beat Canada's Human Rights Censors
Wondering About the Banking Crisis
Notes Toward a Theory of Obama: Jacob Weisberg on Slate.com
Statistical Proof that Democrats Hate Freedom: Funny and Incisive Report on Daily Kos
Blessed by Obviousness: My Response to a Comment on Opednews
How Colin Powell Got Snookered at CIA: Ray McGovern on Common Dreams
Time is Not Running Out on the Prosecution of Torture Crimes: Elizabeth de la Vega on Truthout.org
Troubling Commentary on North Korea's Troubling Nukes: Bill Powell in Time Magazine
Schmookler is Available for Conversation
Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: Letting His Foes Be the Focus of Ugliness
The GOP’s Paranoid Foreign Policy: Michael Freedman in Newsweek
Is Cheney Hurting/Helping? Question from Me, Article from Lincoln Mitchell
My Hunch about a Credit Card Reform Matter
Cheney Lost to Bush: David Brooks in the NYTimes
Advice from *America's Worst Mom*: Lenore Skenazy in The Week
The Problems in Obama's Speech: More Stategic Subtlety or Outright Hypocrisy?
Signs of the Times in Russia: A Dramatic Example of the Long-term Battle of Patterns in a Society
Politics and the Passage of Credit Card Reform: Ryan Grim on Huffington Post
Senate Democrats, the Closing of Guantanamo, and the Obama Strategy: A Tentative Hypothesis
Imagine You're Talking to People Who Think FOX is a Legitimate News Source
The Happiest People in the World are Heavily Taxed: Thomas Kostigen on Marketwatch
The Politics of Excusing Torture in the Name of National Security: John Dean on Findlaw.com
The Character of Dick Cheney: Andrew Sullivan in The Atlantic
What Obama Wants in the Next Justice: Geoffrey R. Stone on Huffington Post
Torture Defensible? How about Homicide? Mcjoan on Daily Kos
Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: Correlation of Forces
Introducing HuffPost*s Weekly Recap of the Sunday Talk Shows
Interesting Reflections on People and Happiness: A Passage from an Atlantic Monthly Article
The GOP's Misguided Campaign Against Judicial Empathy: Dahlia Lithwick in Slate.com
Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: A Missed Opportunity?
The Decline of The Conservative Intellectual: Nate Silver on FiveThirtyEight.com
Calling Club for Growth: Kos Hopes the Suicidal GOP Will Knock Off Krist in the Primaries
Obama, The Torture Pictures, and this Dick Cheney Moment: A Speculation
Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: Premise
Debt is Not So Cool: How the Recession May be Changing the Attitudes of the Young
Ronald Reagan's Position on Torture Now Labeled "Hard Left": Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com
Questioning Obama's Strategy Against Evil: Overview
Upcoming Battle on Souther's Replacement: William Rivers Pitt in Truthout.org
Obama Delivers the Zingers at Journalists' Dinner: Washington Post Report
Bonkers in Georgia: Hendrik Hertzberg on More of the Rising Craziness on the Right
A Great Party Needs to Have Give: Peggy Noonan on the Problems of Today's Republican Party
Archiving NSB Writings: Anyone Out there Willing to Help?
How Obama Sees the Court (According to Those Who Know Him): NYTimes Article
DOJ Report Reaches "Damning" Conclusions for Bybee and Yoo: Jason Leopold on Truthout.org
Book review of Dave Neiwert's "The Eliminationists": By Susan G on Daily Kos
What Do Liberals Want on the Court? Josh Patashnik in The New Republic
Anti-Green Economics: Paul Krugman's Blog
America Becomes Desensitized to Torture: Dahlia Lithwick on Slate.com
Arlen Specter Needs to Earn His Spot in the Democratic Party: Editorial in The New Republic
How the Republicans Re-Write the History of the New Deal: Jonathan Chait in the New Republic
Christopher Buckley on Losing His Parents
Craziness in America: II. The Same Dark Spirit at Work
Reconciliation as Game-Changer on Health Care Reform: Jonathan Cohn in the New Republic
Bailouts Have Cost Less than You Think: David Weidner in the Wall Street Journal
Obama Gets Higher Grade at 100 Days than His Followers: Robert Borosage on Huffington Post
Crawling Out from Under the Rocks: Thoughts on the Ongoing Exposure of Bushite Crimes
How the Media Cover the Torture Controversy: Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com
What Obama Can Do on Energy on His Own: Becker and Gerstenzang in the New York Times
Juicy Morsels from Dean Baker: Cases of Misreporting of Economic News from Major Media
Why Do Conservatives Like Stephen Colbert? Lee Drutman Article Followed by Schmookler Commentary
Larry Summers is Not the Guy to Lead Us Beyond the Money Culture: Frank Rich in the New York Times
Reclaiming America's Soul: Krugman Argues for Prosecution of Bushite Crimes
Why It's Necessary to Fast-Track Universal Health Care: Robert Reich
Obama and Transparency: Thoughts about Lions and Foxes
Handshake Diplomacy: Fred Kaplan on Obama's Approach to Foreign Policy
Obama's Loyal Opposition: Robert Kuttner in Huffington Post
Threats of Secession and Other Recent Republican Rhetoric: Lincoln Mitchell in the Huffington Post
Rising Craziness in America: I. Obama Has to Address It
The State of the Post-Bushite Republican World: Sam Gruen and David Spangler Offer Good Thoughts
The Texas Governor Strikes the "Secession" Note: Gail Collins in the New York Times
Why a God with Such Dubious Character? Thoughts from Jack Miles, Jerome Segal and Me
Red and Blue Economies? Nate Silver on Partisan Distortions of Perceptions
How Minnesotans Feel about Resolving Their Senate Race: DemFromCT on Daily Kos
You've Really Got to See and Hear This: Something Irrelevant but So Inspiring
The Bushite Policies of Obama’s Department of Justice: IV-Justified?
The Bushite Policies of Obama's Department of Justice: III. Protest!
Playing on People's Fears: Please Help Me Flesh Out this Indictment
The Bushite Policies of Obama's Department of Justice: II-Illustrated
The Bushite Policies of Obama's Department of Justice: A Series with a Surprise
From "Bad Experiences" to an Ecology of the Soul: An Essay by Me
Post-Consumer Prosperity: Robert H. Frank in The American Prospect
Is the GOP Cynical or Naive? Christopher Orr in the New Republic
The Geithner-Summers Plan Can Be Gamed: Jeffrey Sacks (and a Comment from Paul Krugman)
The Pick-Your-Poison Paradox: Nate Silver on FiveThirtyEight
Understanding Systems vs. How the Human Mind Seems Wired to Think
Why Obama Has (Largely) Stopped Reaching Out for Bi-Partisanship: John Dickerson on Slate.com
Your Help Wanted: Seeking Examples of Dishonest Republican Arguments
Obama as Peacemaker: A Tale (That Makes Me Feel Good) from the G-20
Will the Recession Bring a Collapse of U.S. Power? Au Contraire, Says Walter Russell Meade
Jim Webb's Courageous Call for Major Changes in Our Justice System: Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com
In Praise (Mostly) of the Obama Auto Plan: From John Paul MacDuffie, a Business School Professor
Being Right Has Little to Do with Pundits' Success: Paul Farrell on Marketwatch
No Return To Normal: James K. Galbraith on Why this Economic Crisis Changes Things
A Truth Deficit: E.J. Dionne on Why the Conversation over our Financial Future is so Poisoned
Different Spiritual Paths, Different Contributions
This Time, Geithner’s Plan for Banks Makes Sense: Jim Nocera in the New York Times
Why We Need a Commission on Presidential Power: Bruce Ackerman in the American Prospect
The Right Way to Fix Wall Street's Pay: Some Smart Analysis from Nate Silver
Behold, humble Deutschland: David Marsh on Why Germany Isn't Gloating Over its Relative Prosperity
Shall We Get Rid of the Lawyers? Anthony Lewis Review Article in the NYRB
Two Sides of an A.I.G. Bonus Story: From the Receiver of a Bonus, and From a Critic of Him
What The Ozone Scare Can--And Can't--Teach Us: Bradford Plumer in the New Republic
If Obama Did Take on Wall Street, How Tough/Winnable a Battle Would it Be?
Memory: A Fascinating Passage about the Role of Memory in Some Biblical Stories
Two Questions: What Does it Mean to Support Obama? and What if Obama's Banking Policy is Right?
Obama's Missing the Opportunity the Banking Crisis Presents
Some Truths About Guantanamo Bay: Lawrence Wilkerson Sheds Light on the Darkness
Does Krugman Have the Ear of the President? If Not, Here's What He Could Do
Can Anyone Reassure Me? Is there Any First-Rate Economist Who Agrees With the Geithner Approach?
Revenge of the Glut: Paul Krugman Helps Illuminate the Economic Crisis
Some Reflections on Obama's Promise: An Exchange Between Jim Oberg and John Hofer
Public Anger and the Challenge to Obama: Two Pieces, E.J. Dionne and Thomas Friedman
Ongoing Thoughts and Open Forum --March 19
Does Obama Have the Right Economic Team: Two Pieces that Feed My Doubts
Problematic Southern Culture: Cheap Labor from Slavery to Union-Busting
How Should We Think about the AIG-Bonus Affair? A Discussion Question
Banking Vouchers: Benjamin Barber with a Good Idea for Market-Loving Geithner
The Irish Troubles: A Moving and Hopeful Opinion Piece from an Irishman
Kepler and Brahe: A Little Piece of Science History
Today's Republican Party is a Central Part of our National Crisis
Stop Blaming the Market's Collapse on Obama: Jonathan Chait in the New Republic
Half-Way Through Obama's "First 100 Days": William Rivers Pitt Gives an Assessment
From Longfellow's Poem, "The Building of the Ship"
Nuclear-Armed China and India, with Tibet in Between: Dan Twining in Foreign Policy
Obama, Bush Secret-Keeper: Dahlia Lithwick Questions Obama's Position on Bushite Crimes
Ready to Rumble: Jed Lewison on Obama Taking on the GOP on Earmarks
Financial Glimmerings? A Couple of Brief Notices
The Media's Stupid/Corrupt Quest for "Balance": An Article from Daily Kos
Obama's Fine Memorandum Breaking with Bush on Signing Statements
The Tall People: Reflections on Humans and Trees
Why the Market Wants Banks Nationalized: John Verke on Seeking Alpha
Behind the Curve: Krugman's Continuing Worries about Obama Economic-Rescue Policies
A Fictious Exchange Between Obama and Emanuel on Their Beleaguered Banking Policy
The Republicans' Limbaugh Problem, According to David Frum (Conservative Republican)
The Cynicism of the Commentariat?
The Internet: Foe of Democracy? An Analysis from Cass Sunstein
Obama and the Banks: Critiques from Kuttner and Krugman
Obama Should Proclaim His Liberal Vision, Says Leon Wieseltier (But I do not Concur)
Virtue and Victory in Armed Struggle: An Exchange on Opednews
Pithy Insights from Dean Baker's Beat-the-Press Round-up
I Believe This is an Accurate Translation of the Bush DOJ *Legal Opinions* Released Yesterday
The Santelli Screed Hits Wrong Target on Mortgage Bailout: Dean Baker on Truthout
Obama's "Centrism" is Protective Coloration: Part II, Some Applications
The Obama-ites Are (Wisely) Using Limbaugh as a Weapon Against the GOP
The Obama Code: Passages from George Lakoff
Frugality, Eternity and Clarity
Paul Krugman Has Me Worried about How Obama's Handling the Banks
Chris Matthews Has His Moments-- Watch the Brief Video
Obama's "Centrism" is Protective Coloration: Part I, the Thesis
There Is No Social Security Crisis: Paul Waldman on The American Prospect
Obama Redefines *Investment*: Jeffrey Feldman on Huffington Post
Obama and the Revival of Responsibility: Robert Creamer on Huffington Post
Obama's State of the Union Address: An Epitaph for the GOP-- Jacob Heilbrun in Huffington Post
The Filibuster Issue: An Argument from Ryan Grim and a Dismissal from Me
The GOP's Jihad on Obama: Robert Parry on Consortium News
Normal Times? Not Yet. Maybe Not in Sight.
Disagreeing With Paul Krugman: Stan Collender at capitalgainsandgames.com
What Are the Characteristics of an ENLIGHTENED Human Being?
THE LAND’S PRAYER: An Expression of Reverence for the Earth by Layne Longfellow
Ongoing Thoughts for February 20
The Republicans Foretell Their Opposition to Health Care Reform: Howard Dean on Huffington Post
Dean Baker Takes Two Swipes at the Washington Post
The Left Would Help Obama by Complaining More: John Judis in the New Republic
George Will's Disingenous Global-Warming Denial: Two Critiques of a Recent Piece
Wondering: What Changes to the NSB Site in the Post-Bushite Era?
How to Speak Obama: Zadie Smith's Insights Reported by Jack Shafer
Republicans Propose Nationalizing the Banks: An Opportunity for Obama?
Obama's Stimulus Rope-a-Dope: Noam Scheiber in The New Republic
The Irrational Voter: Larry M. Bartels in the Wilson Quarterly
GOP, Like Rush, Sees Hope in Failed Stimulus: Meteor Blades on Daily Kos
Let the Zombie Banks Die: Ariana Huffington
Obama Versus Petraeus? Gareth Porter on Inter Press Service
Plunder and Blunder: Progressive Economists Discuss the Crisis (Part II)
Problematic Southern Culture: Venerating Disastrous Leaders
Krugman on Geithner's Ambiguous Bank Bailout Plan
The Capitulation of the Mountain Man
The Myth about FDR's New Deal Failing: Charles McMillion
Ongoing Thoughts and Open Forum: February 9
Plunder and Blunder: Progressives Discuss the Crisis (Part I)
Ariana and Me on the Proper Beneficiaries of Bailout
Operation *Zero Cred*: Bob Cesca Calls for the Netroots to Rise Up to Help Obama on the Stimulus
Obama*s Growing Pains: Chuck Todd on Accomplishments and Errors in the Pursuit of the Stimulus
European Activists Call For Bush To Be Tried For Torture: Julio Godoy on Inter Press Service
Why I'm Not OK with this Dying Thing
We're on the Edge: Paul Krugman Exhorting Obama to Take the Offensive on the Stimulus
Should Obama Have Taken Fuller Ownership of the Stimulus Package? Nate Silver on FiveThirtyEight.com
Why Pay $36.09 for Rancid Chicken?: Stephen J. Dubner on Freakonomics.com
Obama Shores Up Ethics Credibility: NYTimes Editorial on the Daschle Withdrawal
The Big Sort Revisited: Shankar Vedantam in the Washington Post
A Hopeful View from Robert E. Lee
More on the Dilemma Regarding Prosecuting the Bushites: From Some Exchanges I Had on Opednews
Post-Partisanship, R.I.P.: Robert Kuttner in The American Prospect
Interpretations of Obama: Paul Waldman in The American Prospect
Generals Seek To Reverse Obama*s Iraq Withdrawal Decision: Gareth Porter on Inter Press Service
Ongoing Thoughts and Open Forum: February 1
What Life Asks of Us: A Piece Worth Discussing from David Brooks
The New Me: I Just Changed the Photo of Me on My Bio Page
Question on Stimulus and Politics: Was Obama Brilliant or Blundering?
If I Could Now Ask Obama, Privately, One Question
The Debunking of Obama in Some Foreign Press: Anne Applebaum on Slate.com
MLK's *Black President* Prediction-- A Very Lucky Shot
A Return to Professionalism: Fred Kaplan on Obama's National Security Under-Secretary Appointments
Wanted: Good Calls to a Radio Show this Thursday Morning
Prosecuting Bushite Crimes: It's a Genuine Dilemma
What Will the Next Republican Coalition Look Like? Paul Waldman in The American Prospect
Speaking in Washington, D.C. on Sunday: All Are Welcome
Challenging Time in the Practice of Frugality
The Loyal Opposition: Joe Scarborough Manifests How Obama's Bridge-Building Is Working
Wall Street Voodoo: Krugman Fears Another Bank Bailout Where Taxpayers Will Get the Shaft
Reverend Lowery's Benediction: The Transcript
How to Push Obama: John Nichols in The Progressive
FROM OPPOSING EVIL TO SUPPORTING THE GOOD
Bush's Central Defect, According to Historial Alan Brinkley
Ongoing Thoughts for January 18
What was with this McClelland Dude? Ruminations on a Civil War Matter
What Will, What Should, Obama's Inaugural Address Be Like?
Sponsor an Executive: A Very Funny Video
Evil Leaders Destroy What They Claim To Love: An Essay by Me from More Than Three Years Ago
The Complicity of the Mainstream Media in the Bushite Iraq Fiasco: William Rivers Pitt in Truthout
Should Environmentalists Fear Cass Sunstein? Michael A. Livermore on Obama's New *Regulatory Czar*
Intellectual Dishonesty (Gasp!) from a Conservative Economist: Nate Silver Hits Another Good One
A Deepened Sense of the Tragedy of Lincoln's Assassination
Ehud Barak and the Gaza Conflict: A Glimpse into Israeli Politics
Ariana Proposes a Way for Us Americans to Join in this Presidency
Shocked! G.W. Bush has Done Something Good
Two Views of Obama's Tax Cuts: Krugman and Scheiber
The Future of the Internet: A Review Article by Tim Wu
Radio Show in Virginia on Monday: What My Approach Will Be This Time
Best Nuggets from Dean Baker's *Beat the Press* This Week
Why Bananas are a Parable For Our Times: Johann Hari of the London Independent
A Couple of Poignant Little Stories from the Civil War: From Goodwin's TEAM OF RIVALS
Three Ideas of What To Do About Burris: From John S. Bohrer, Nate Silver, and Me
The Panetta Nomination Picks Up Steam: News article by Sam Stein and Ryan Grim on Huffington Post
Obama's Justice Nominees Signal End of Bush Terror Tactics: News Report from McClatchy Newspapers
Deficit or Depression? Robert Kuttner on the Need for Stimulus
E.J. Dionne on *Why Senate Democrats need to reject Roland Burris*
The *Secret of Lincoln's Gifted Leadership*: A Passage from A TEAM OF RIVALS
Two Brief, Pungent Entries from Paul Krugman's Blog
What Book(s) Would You Recommend?
The Two-Sidedness of the Obama-Warren Gambit: Two Similar Takes-- Alan Wolfe and E.J. Dionne
On the Legalization — or Not — of Marijuana: Stephen J. Dubner in the New York Times
The Madoff Fraud and the Erosion of Trust in American Capitalism: Anne Applebaum in Slate.com
Nate Silver Thinks Through the Smart Republican Strategy on the Stimulus Bill
Why Gaza Matters: An Israeli's Analysis
The Return of the Princess: The Mythic Dimension of the Caroline Kennedy Story
Slow Learners: Jonathan Chait on the Post-Defeat Republicans
Lincoln's Empathic Approach: A Passage from A TEAM OF RIVALS by Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Torture Report: A NY Times Editorial
Keeping Order: The Latest on the *Broken Windows* Theory
Reading Obama's Character from How He is on the B-Ball Court: Essay by Obama's Brother-in-Law
A Christmas Present You Could Give Me that Won't Cost You a Cent
The Beauty I Find in Christmas
The Obama Inauguration Plan as Another Indicator of the Obama Way
NSB and Catching the Wind: A Communication from Jude Wilber
Ten Things Science Says Will Make You Happy
Why I Don't Agree with Those Who Oppose Caroline Kennedy's Appointment
Supreme Court Overturns Bush v. Gore: Humor Piece from the Onion
A Morning Wrapped in Ice: A Special Scene Described by April Moore (my wife)
Republicans Attacking the Republican Attackers of Obama on Blagojevich
On Obama and Goodness? My Replies to Comments on Opednews
The Enormous Bill for the Bush Presidency: A Passage from a Piece by LithiumCola on Dailykos
How Important is the Loss of Friendship?
Man Bites Dogma: Dean Baker on the Institutional Resistance to Hearing the Economic Truth
The Upside of Catastrophe: E.J. Dionne in The New Republic
Team of Heavyweights: Henry Kissinger on Obama's National Security Players
Let Obama Smoke, Says Ron Rosenbaum in Slate.com
Primitive Response: On the Comings and Goings of My Joy in These Mountains
Class Warriors: Robert Borosage on What the Senate Repulicans Have Shown Themselves to Be
Newt Gingrich Tries the Old Culture War Route: Michelle Goldberg in The New Republic
Painting A Red State Blue: A Brief and Meaningful Memoir from Jude Wilbur
Nobel Laureate Physicist and Global Warming Activist to be Energy Secretary?
Harry Reid's Letter to Governor Blagojevich: Step Down, Make No Appointment to the Senate
Obama Describes His Coming Move to Make Peace with the Muslim World
Loyalty is an Overrated Virtue in Politics: Jacob Weisberg on Slate.com
Does George W. Bush Deserve Credit for Keeping Us Safe Since 9/11?
How to Repair Our Relationship With Europe: Matthew Yglesias in The American Prospect
The Truth About the Election: Elizabeth Drew's Good Overview
Whither (Wither?) Right-Wing Talk Radio: Michael Medved in USA Today
Peasant Food: Elemental, Economical, Nutritious
Getting to 60 in the Senate is Not Just About Party: Nate Silver from FiveThirtyEight.com
Radio Show Consultation: Part II
A New Global Grand Strategy is Needed: Fareed Zakaria in Newsweek
Atrocity: How Can People, How Can a Culture, Get so Broken?
Of Ants and Men: Christine Kenneally in Slate.com
Paulson and Bernanke Spread the Wealth Around: Dean Baker Critiques the Bailout
Help Me, Please, Prepare Rightly for My Radio Show in Virginia
Gates Staying on at Defense? Here's Why Fred Kaplan, at Slate.com, Thinks It's a Great Idea
More About "Justice or Reconciliation"
A Remarkable Sign of Humanity in a City
Harvesting Thanksgiving: A Homily by Davidson Loehr
On Obama's Not Winning a Majority of the White Vote: Timothy Noah in Slate.com
Feeling Thankful: A Personal Statement
Some Thoughts of Mine on How Obama Should Proceed
Impressed with Obama's Team: Remarks from Krugman at the Times and from Fred Kaplan on Slate.com
We Found the WMD: Thomas Friedman on the Severity of this Economic Emergency
This *Transformative* Election Did NOT Change the *Big Sorting* of America
How the Obama Wave of Change Crosses the Atlantic: Will Hutton in The New Statesman (UK)
I Was Evidently Wrong about the Clinton Appointment
Should It Bother Me? (It Does)
Al Qaeda Sees Obama as a Threat: Report on Huffington Post
The Fundamental Changes Our Economic Crisis Requires: Eliot Spitzer in the Washington Post
Justice or Reconciliation: Alternative Approaches to Healing America
Obama's Jarring Use of Complete Sentences: Humor Piece by Andy Borowitz
Obama Should Tackle Climate Change, Says Al Gore
Barack, Make the Most of Your Magic Moment: Part I Blow on the Embers
A Few Goodies from Dean Baker's *Beat the Press* Round Up
Obama on His Spirituality: Transcript of a 2004 Interview
About Michelle and her Fashions: Open Letter to Michelle Obama from Josh Patner on Slate.com
Hypothesis on the Clinton Appointment
Five Areas of Foreign Policy Where Obama Has Been Dealt Some Good Cards: Fred Kaplan in Slate.com
The Big Sort: The Growing Political Segregation in America
Thank You, America: A No-Longer Cynical Young American Responds to Obama's Election
A Small but Telling Comment from Michelle Obama
CO2-wise, We're Already in the Danger Zone, New Study Reports
Health Care as Stimulus: What Dean Baker Thinks Obama Should Do at the Outset
Ariana's *Winners and Losers* of Campaign 2008
Take Away Lieberman's Gavel: Kagro on the Daily Kos
Start Big or Step-by-step: New York Times Report on Debate Over Obama's Agenda
Reversal of Fortune: Joseph E. Stiglitz on Our Profound Economic Mess
"Mutts Like Me": A Jewel in Obama's Friday Press Conference
Obama's Rhetoric: Jack Shafer Piece from Slate.com
Rural/Conservative :: Urban/Liberal
The Human Aspect: A Glimpse into the Human Relationships Part of the Emerging Obama Picture
How Conciliatory, How Progressive: How Should We Want Obama to Play It?
So What Are Your Thoughts in the Wake of the Election?
Dreams and Votes: John Cory on Truthout
Inborn Political Orientation? Interesting Research but a Big, Questionable Inferential Leap
A Question for the Group at Large: Regarding Long Lines to Vote
Something Else Funny: From Colbert Appreciating *the McCain Campaign Treating Us Like Children*
The Race Card is Still in the Deck: Andrew Delbanco on this "Fateful Election"
The Cream of the Week from Dean Baker: On the Media, and the Economy, and Economists
A McCain Victory Could Cement Unchecked Presidential Power: Garry Wills on this "Fateful Election"
About Frederick Law Olmstead: A Hero of Mine
The Text of the Endorsement of Obama by the Editors of The New Republic
McCain Threatens to Drag Down the Whole GOP Slate, says David Frum in the Washington Post
Transmitting Our Wounds into the World: How We Almost Didn't Buy This Place
How Would You Adapt to Hard Times? The Radio Show I'm Doing in Ohio on Monday Morning
The Barracuda Bites the Hand that Fed Her
An Amazing TV Interview: Biden Confronts Ridiculously Right-Wing TV Interviewer
Americans May Do Something Great or Something Terrible: Ronald Dworkin on this "Fateful Election"
The Food Issue: Michael Pollan Lays it out for the President-Elect
We Americans Cannot Talk about Our Failure: Thomas Powers on this *Fateful Election*
How Quickly the Strange Becomes Familiar: Thoughts on Our Adaptability
The Permanent (Smear) Campaign: Paul Waldman in The American Prospect
How Americans Deal in Nonsense: Remarks by Joan Didion Concerning this Election
Restoring Good Order to a Disturbed Land: Why We Create an Order of Our Own Choosing
Making "Who Could Have Known?" Unacceptable: Dean Baker on the Key to Popping Bubbles
Phony Media Balance Attacked by Dean Baker
The Son of William F. Buckley Explains Why He'll Vote for Obama
Restoring Good Order to a Disturbed Land: The All-Too Blatant Metaphor of "Dead Wood"
Christopher Hitchens Dumps on McCain/Palin and Says Vote Obama
What is at Stake in Literature: A Brief Review Essay by Leon Wieseltier
The Rationality of Panic: Steve Coll on the Genuine Uncertainty Behind the Financial Panic
Will Bin Laden Strike Again? Rany Jazayerli on FiveThirtyEight.com
David Brooks on Palin's Anti-Intellectualism and Obama's Intellect
A Sign of McCain Having a Soul Again
Moment of Truth: Paul Krugman Sounds an Urgent Alarm on the Deepening Economic Danger
Obama Finally Figures Out How to Talk about the Economy, Says John Dickerson on Slate.com
Science and the Law, and Problems of Bias: Janett Raloff in Science News
It's Over, Says Howard Wolfson
Restoring Good Order to a Disturbed Land: Erosion as a Natural Tendency
Anger vs. Steadiness in the Crisis: Joe Klein in Time Magazine
Make-Believe Maverick: Tom Dickinson in Rolling Stone
We Must Examine More Closely the U.S./Russian Relationship, Stephen F. Cohen
Restoring Good Order to a Disturbed Land: Introductory Thoughts
Memo to Joe Biden: Let Palin Talk -- Nate Silver on FiveThirtyEight.com
Wall Street's Just Deserts: Harold Meyerson in the Washington Post
McCain Is Stuck With Palin: Nate Silver on Fivethirtyeight.com
Is this Bailout Unnecessay? James K. Galbraith Thinks So
What Obama Must Do to Keep the Momentum: Drew Westen on Huffington Post
The Bailout Failed to Pass, Now What? Chadwick Matlin in Slate.com
Paul Newman: A Class Act ...Dahlia Lithwick in Slate.com
Letting Sarah Palin Answer Questions Is Very, Very Dangerous: Greg Sargent at Talking Points Memo
The Evolution this Week of Krugman's Views of this Evolving Bailout Scheme
Obama on McCain's not Being on Your Side
Some Quick Thoughts of Mine on Last Night's Debate
Difficulty Factor: Chapter 8 --the Last Chapter-- of My Book NOT SO STRAIGHT-AND-NARROW
Know-nothingism as Decried by Sam Harris in NEWSWEEK
A Citizen's Bailout Plan, from Robert Borosage on Huffington Post
Russia's Paying an Economic Price for the Georgian Invasion: Julia Ioffe in The New Republic
Barack Obama, John McCain and the Language of Race: Brent Staples in the New York Times
A Piece of Advice for Obama: A Brief Essay by Me (ABS)
The Party is Over: Pat Buchanan Piece, Followed by Schmookler Critique
Why All This Lying Really Matters: Paul Krugman in the New York Times
Critique of this Federal Bailout: Sebastian Mallaby of the Washington Post
Hard Truths About the Bailout: New York Times Editorial
What Liberals Don't Get about Why People Vote Republican: Jonathan Haidt on Edge.org
"Enough Is Enough!": Paul Slansky Says This Should be Obama's Mantra
The Politics of Contempt: Paul Waldman on the Emotional Energy of the Palin-Loving Republican Base
How Sound Are the Fundamentals of Our Economy? Daniel Gross in Slate.com
Winning Vs. Building: An Extremely Insightful Statement by David Spangler
I Commend to You this Archived Radio Broadcast
How To Debate a Girl, and Win: Dahlia Lithwick's Advice to Joe Biden
The "One of Us" Phenomenon and the Palin Bounce
Where Is Russia Heading? A Handful of Experts Offer Their Assessments
Turns Out the Radio Show is Tomorrow (Tuesday)
What Does McCain's Recent Success Say about America's Moral Condition? Nothing Good
You Can Hear My Radio Show Tomorrow Morning Live on the Web
Gay Sex Trumps Corruption on Senate Sin List: Margaret Carlson on Bloomberg.com
The Value of Daydreaming: Jonah Lehrer in Boston.com
Lakoff's Latest Advice to the Obama Campaign
The Brain-Dead Media Cannot Hear Obama's Message: Eric Alterman in The Nation
Other Voices Expressing the Same Agonized Frustration with Obama's Dispassion
The Overprotection of Children: A Piece from the U.K.
Combatting Republican Propaganda Is Core to Addressing ALL Our Problems
A Statement from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: From an Interview on Democracy Now Radio
Obama's Restraint is Deliberate: Observations Regarding Olbermann's Interview of Barack Obama
Russia Calls NATO's Bluff: William Pfaff on Truthdig.com
Contrasting the Two Conventions: Mark Schmitt in The American Prospect
Russian Blunder, Not Russian Triumph: The Georgian Conflict as Interpreted by Fareed Zakaria
Polls Suggest Few Clinton Supporters Will Be Won Over by Palin's Being on the GOP Ticket
How the Republicans Win: Essay by Robert Parry on Smears, Dirty Tricks and October Surprises
HAUNTED: A Narrative that Raises Questions about the Nature of Meaning and Value
Meet Jane Doe: Harold Myerson on Palin and her Convention Speech
Illegal Mad Cow Testing: Where are the Free Marketers? (Small, Juicy Tidbit from Dean Baker)
Want to Protest this Muzzling and Intimidation of the Press? Here's a Way
Joe Klein's No-Nonsense Piece on McCain's Post-Palin Rage Against the Press
What The Palin Pick Means For Evangelicals: Alan Wolfe in The New Republic
John, Don't Go: Paul Krugman on the Political Meanings of this Hurricane
Is This Why Americans Are So Prone to Fear? (Schmookler writes again)
The Traffic Guru: Fascinating Essay from the Wilson Quarterly
McCain's Hail Mary Pass: William Greider on McCain's Veep Pick
The Oprah-fication of Michelle Obama: From the Editorial Board of the New York Times
The Troubled Tourist: Gershom Gorenberg on the Ubiquity of Narrow-Minded Nationalisms
Drew Westen on *What Obama Needs to Do in Denver*
Why McCain's Wealth Matters: Jared Bernstein on Huffington Post
What Obama Needs to Do Now: Frank Rich in the New York Times
Who started Cold War II? Piece by Pat Buchanan
As If: Chapter 7 of My Book NOT SO STRAIGHT-AND-NARROW
It's Not About the Medals: Paul Waldman on the Olympics and What's Special About America
Obama's Extraordinary Party-Building: Piece from the American Prospect
The Challenge of Affluence: A Root of Our Moral Crisis
Overhyping Georgia: Matthew Yglesias in The American Prospect
Obama Needs to Play Offsense on the Economy: Nate Silver in the New Republic
The Great Illusion: Krugman on What the Georgian Conflict May Portend About Globalization
Dean Baker Skewers the Wash Post for Special Pleading for Rich Financiers
Russian Aggression and the Bushite American Precedent: Juan Cole in Salon.com
Corrupting Habit: Morris and Altschuler on Why the Media Cover Politics as They Do
McCain's Policy Apathy: Josh Patashnik in The New Republic
Mikhail Gorbachev Says Russia Had No Choice
A Slow-Mo Meltdown: Paul Krugman on our Economic Woes
The Bush administration's feckless response to the Russian invasion: Fred Kaplan in Slate.com
An Antidote Obama Should Use: Drew Westen on Huffington Post
World Inaction: Anne Applebaum on the Outbreak of the Russian-Georgian War
Shall We Be As Gods? Chapter 6 of My Book NOT SO STRAIGHT-AND-NARROW
Study Shows Networks Harder on Obama than on McCain
What the Democrats Should Do on Foreign Policy: Another Passage from Samantha Powers
By Their Fruits: A Commentary Delivered on Public Radio at the Beginning of 2005
Low Road Express: NY Times Editorial on McCain's Disreputable Rovian Campaign Tactics
The Wave of "Capitol Crimes" Continues: Moyers and Winship on Truthout
Running While Black: Bob Herbert in the New York Times
It's Been a Good Couple of Weeks for Evil in America
McCain's Attack Campaign: Paul Harrison in The Observer
Trying to Save the Planet: Paul Krugman Worries about the Politics of Energy and the Environment
Playing With the Devil: Chapter 5 of My Book, NOT SO STRAIGHT-AND-NARROW
Obama as Foreign Policy Realist: By Fareed Zakaria in NEWSWEEK
Will They Now Succeed in Swiftboating Obama?
Obama-McCain Matchup: Blowout Or Trench Warfare? Thomas B. Edsall on Huffington Post
The Denunciations of the Prophets of Old Fit Our Times as Well: A Passage from the Book of Amos
Is China the Next Dominant Superpower: John Pomfret Expresses His Doubts
Brzezinski's Skepticism Regarding the Efficacy of More Troops to Solve the Problem in Afghanistan
Pope Benedict Warns Of The *Spiritual Desert* Spreading Throughout The World
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Priming and Our Extreme Susceptibility to Influence
The Wind Up, and Here's the Pitch
Transforming America's Energy Future: A Speech by Al Gore
Bye Bye Bush: Europe's Parting Feelings as Reported in THE WEEK
The Sweetness of Prophetic Speech: From the Striking Image in Ezekiel
Ariana's Excellent Advice to Barack
Torture and the Rule of Law: Greenwald's Thoughts Prompted by the New Book THE DARK SIDE
McCain, Foot in Mouth: A Telling Snippet from Daily Kos
Hollywood's Hero Deficit: James Bowman in the American
Brother's Keeper: Chapter 4 of Not So Straight*and*Narrow
The Promise and Peril of the Obama World Tour: John Dickerson on Slate.com
Staying with the Shakiness: More About Seeking Peace of Mind Amidst Insecurity
Impeachment Hearings: A Win Is a Win-- Dave Lindorff on Common Dreams
Corporate Media Collude with Democracy's Demise: Speech by Bill Moyers
The motivation for blocking investigations into Bush lawbreaking: Greenwald Provides Illumination
The Prophetic in Today's America: An Exchange Between David R. and Me
The New Yorker's Satirical Obama Cover: Jack Shafer, on Slate.com, Writes a Most Obtuse Piece
Tabula Un-Rasa: David Spangler Writes on *The Projection of Barack Obama*
The Unitary Executive Congress: David Bromwich Bewails the Congressional Cave-In on FISA
By Their Fruits: Chapter 3 of My Book NOT SO STRAIGHT*AND*NARROW
The Prophetic Voice: A Passage from Jeremiah
Time for a Grand Inquest into Bush's High Crimes: Robert Borosage on Huffington Post
Unequal America: Article from Harvard Magazine About Growing Rich/Poor Income Gap
Reaganism and the Energy Crisis: Article by Richard Cohen
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Individual in Isolation is "a Convenient Fiction"
Waxman Threatens Mukasey With Contempt Over Cheney*s FBI Interview on CIA Leak Probe
The Contrasting Gambling Styles of McCain and Obama: Article from Time Magazine
How Obama can Lessen the Intensity of the Opposition: Jeff Greenfield in Slate.com
The Mind and the Obama Magic: George Lakoff's Analysis and Recommendation
Seeking Peace of Mind Amidst Insecurity: Reflections on a Spiritual Challenge
Anxious in America: Tom Friedman on America on the Economic Skids
Jim Wallis on Obama's Faith-Based Proposals
What Makes Something Good: Chapter 2 of Not So Straight-and-Narrow
Chief Justice Roberts, the 2008 Election, and the Future of Law in America: Jeffrey Rosen Article
Is the Press Stupid or What? Probably What. The Handling of Wes Clark's Remark about McCain
Does the Housing Bubble Have to Pop?: A Debate Between Dean Baker and Robert Kutner
Don't Worry About Obama's Brand For God's Sake!: Thomas de Zengotita on Huffington Post
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Holiness in the Book of Leviticus
The Republicans and the Terrorism Card: Frank Rich on this Charlie Black Affair
Which Catch Phrases Should be *Thrown Under the Bus"? Ron Rosenbaum on Slate.com
Is It Smart Politics: A Question about Obama's Recent Policy Moves
America's Scary Non-Voters: Survey Finds Rise of Alarming Values among the Politically Uninvolved
Three Pieces on the Obama "Pragmatism"-or-"Betrayal"
The Cult of Che: Paul Berman on Our Warped Ideas of Glory
America's Next Chapter: Gary Hart in the New York Times
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: On Putting Neighbor Back into Neighborhood
More Phony Myths: Maureen Dowd on Rove on Obama
Life Is Good, So Why Do We Feel So Bad? A Really Bonehead Op/Ed from the Wall Street Journal
The Shadow Platform: Robert C. Koehler Decipihers the Dark Republican Attacks on Obama
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: On the Chemistry of Love and Attachment
What the Bushites Want in Iraq: Article by Pepe Escobar
Teaching People Financial Irresponsibility: David Brooks in the New York Times
Greenwald Denounces Obama's FISA Cave-in: I Agree, I Don't Like It, and I Don't Get It
How People Protect Their Most Cherished Beliefs: A Biblical Case in Point
What's the Oil/Environment Trade-Off: Dean Baker Presents Some Numbers
Leahy Announces Opposition to House FISA Bill
This is a Moment of Truth in America: Say Yes to What Obama Represents
Greenwald Mounts Campaign Targeting Enablers of Telecom Immunity
Biden as Possible Veep Choice: E.J. Dionne in The American Prospect
How Obama Can Fight On National Security: Seth Colter Walls on Huffington Post
Hanging by a Thread: Scott Lemieux on the Fragile Victory Last Week in the Supreme Court
America's Dangerous Imbalance of Power
Frank Rich on Obama vs. McCain
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Butterfly Effect and the Limits of Human Knowledge
Polarizing on Global Warming along Party Lines
The End of the End of History: Robert Kagan on the Return of a World of Ideological Conflict
Opinion Around the World on the U.S. and Its Presidential Candidates
Dan Rather Blasts Today's Corporate News Organizations
Obama Shows His Punch: Borosage on the Candidates' Sparring over the Economy
An Exchange with a Member of My Virginia Radio Audience
Why We Need Another Recount: Piece by Mark Crispin Miller
A Glimpse into Wes Clark, Potential Obama Running-Mate
Network News Anchors Praise the Job They Did in the Run-up to the War: Greenwald Piece
Who Should Be the VEEP Pick? (I'm Thinking about Chris Dodd)
A Gift to the G.O.P.: Bob Herbert in the New York Times
Obama Should Challenge McCain to a "National Security Match-Up"
A Way to Respond to Political Emails: A Worthwhile Contribution from Jim Oberg
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: On the Pristine Forest of Biolowieza Puszcza
Karl Rove and the Siegelman Case: A NYTimes Editorial
Schmookler on the Market System: Here in a Nutshell
What Voters Saw Tuesday Night: Drew Weston on Huffington Post
The Truth About the War: New York Times Editorial
Lieberman, Speaking of the *Democrat Party" Reveals Himself: Piece by Kos
Two Commentaries on Hillary and Her Latest Moves
*I'm Not Bush's Third Term*: On McCain's Primetime Tuesday Speech
The Hillary Matter: It Is All Part of the Same Spititual Struggle in America Today
"The World Never Seemed Quite Right Again"
Obama's Present Weakness: Some Thoughts
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Smoking, Quitting Smoking, and the Group
McCain's McClellan Nightmare: Frank Rich in the New York Times
Discussion Question: What Can Obama Do Now to Rekindle the Sense of Hopeful Possibility?
Bad News for Republicans: It's Their Positions on the Issues that Voters Hate Most
Discussion Question: If the Hillary/Barack Dynamic Were Playing Out in the Republican Party
Former Prosecutors Challenge White House Immunity Claim
Moyers on Democracy and the State of America
A Piece (Not By Me) Proposing Another Veep Pick
Confessions and Revelations: Greenwald Piece on the Deepening Picture of Media Corruption
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Oliver Sacks Describes How Music Helped a Damaged Woman to Move
A Persuasive Piece on Why Webb Ought not be Obama's Veep
Prisoner Abuse Reported by the F.B.I.: New York Times Editorial
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Integrative, Holistic Impulse at the Core of Goethe's Thought and Art
Go Ahead, Make My Day: Hillary May Give Obama a "Sister Souljah Moment"
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Mating and the Pattern of *Ripeness*
Head Winds and Tail Winds: A Metaphor
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Blessed Be the Tie that Binds
The Toxic Thinking of the Right Infects the Body Politic: Ariana Huffington Piece
Back in the Saddle: Returned from Travels
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Cancer Seen in an Evolutionary Context
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Connection Through The Generations
McCain Signals Breaking with the Ways of Bush: New York Times Editorial
On Why People Kill People Over Belief Systems
Inherent Contempt for Rove: An Email from Congressman Wexler
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Symbolism and the Making of Connections (from N.O. Brown's LOVE'S BODY)
*American* as a Wedge Issue: Harold Myserson on the GOP Election Message
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Wholeness as Appealing, Wholeness as Empowering
Conyers Mounts Opposition to Iran Attack: Letter Published on Truthout
McCain embraces Bush's radical views of executive power: Glenn Greenwald Piece
Two Women --Jean Houston and Barbara Ehrenreich-- Discuss Hillary Clinton
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Human Propensity to Hear the Pattern of Rhythm
Too Much Focus on One Individual?
Is A 'Unity Ticket' A Good Idea? A Debate on The New Republic Website
Honoring the Emotions that Give Life to Liberal Principles: Nick Bromsell in The American Scholar
Arianna Huffington on How Far McCain has Fallen
Hard Fouls: Brief True Tale of a Basketball Game
I, Too, Have Been Damaged by the Evil Bushite Forces
The Abominable Debate and What It Showed about the Media: Frank Rich in the NYTimes
You Can Hear Me on the Radio This Evening
Two Paths Converge on the Way to the Sacred: My Wife, April, on Two Big Life Changes
Lullaby of Bagdad: Paul Starr in American Prospect on the Mess in Iraq
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: How People Are Influenced by Those Around Them
Who Will Tell the People?: Tom Friedman on the Decrepit State of the Nation
What Happened to Hillary at the Level of the Spirit
"Spiritual Transformation" by Other Names: An Exchange I Had on Opednews
The Media Make Mischief to Weaken the Democrats: Eskow Piece on Huffington Post
Some Information, and Some Thoughts, about Electability
For Your Amusement: An Exchange on Opednews.com About Obama's Hidden Muslim Agenda
Ariana Huffington vs. Howard Kurtz on *Self-Loathing Liberal Media*
Making the Race One about Spiritual Transformation
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: "Magical" Thinking and the Perception of Patterns
"Long National Nightmare" is What Obama Should Be Talking About
Our Long National Nightmare: Thoughts of Now and of 1974
Obama Gets Reasonable Advice from --of All People!-- Karl Rove
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Understanding Our Place in the Larger Order
Thoughts/Questions About Obama's Ability to Defend Himself
Two Catastrophic Acts of Selfishness: One Couple's Enormous Role in America's Tragedy
Are You Aware of the NSB Newsletter?
The Irresponsible Media: Paul Waldman in the American Prospect
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Are We Willing to Align Ourselves with the Truth?
Here's How Obama Should Deal with the *Debate* Issue
Revisiting the Muddle Through Scenario
Reining in Presidential Secrecy: NYTimes Editorial on How Congress Might Be about to Take Action
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Contagious Interactions Among People
*You Can End It Here* This Should Be Obama's Mantra in Indiana
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Here It Is! The Open Forum on Wholeness
The Low Road to Victory: NYTimes Editorial on the Hillary Clinton Campaign
Hillary and Iran: Olbermann Missed the Point
The Democrats Must Not Reward Hillary
Obama Refuses to Schedule N.C. Debate: I Approve
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: My Own Experience of Extraordinary Knowing
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Denial of our Wider and Deeper Knowing
Two on the Effort to Tie Obama to Hamas: A McCain Fundraising Letter and a Gary Hart Article
What Will Happen Legally with the Bushites and Their Torture? A Piece by Spencer Ackerman
Majority of Historians Rate the Bush Presidency the Worst Ever
The Latest in Global Warming Denialism: Jonathan Chait in The New Republic
Dear Barack: Non Carborundum Illegitimatum
Two Speeches on Race: Garry Wills Compares Speeches by Obama and Lincoln
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Eros and Unification (from N. O. Brown's LOVE'S BODY)
Just a Reminder: The Open Forum on Wholeness is Coming Soon
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Goleman on the Human Connection
John Yoo: Spearhead or Scapegoat? Glenn Greenwald Article
Will the Constitution Be Altered to Eliminate Key Liberties?
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Dance of Polarization
Some of My Thoughts About How Obama Might Utilize the Recent "Bitterness" Flap
A Bitter Pill To Swallow: Dylan Lowe (on Huffington Post) on the Obama Flap
I Am Speaking Tomorrow in Santa Fe: Anyone May Attend
Obama's Gaffe: Is There an Opportunity Here for Another Important Speech
Communing with Nature Less and Less: Article from World Science
Hillary's Mistake: It Turns Out that Nice Guys Do Better
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: An Invitation to the NSB Community to Go Deep
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Rhythm and the Channeling of Tourettes (Oliver Sacks)
When the Upholders of Law Are Declared Criminal: A Piece by Scott Horton From Harper's Magazine
The Democrats and Obama and The Politics of Religion: E.J. Dionne in the New Republic
Barr None: Bob Barr May Run as Libertarian, Says Piece in the Atlantic
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Oneness and the Manyness of Life As It Has Evolved on Earth
Interesting Poll Results: Obama the Candidate Most Americans Think Holds AmericanValues
Transformational Leadership: Crisis Not Only Makes It Vitally Necessary, It Also Makes It Possible
Progress and Entropy: Another Passage from the Concluding Chapter of DEBATING THE GOOD SOCIETY
The Intelligence Cover-Up: NYTimes Editorial
Obama's Remarkable Breakthrough on Economics: Robert Kuttner Asks Why Krugman Can't See It
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Maybe It Would Blow Our Minds, Maybe It Would Transform Us
The Mental Health of Democrats and Republicans: Trying to Interpret a Juicy Fact from Harper's Index
Just Who Is Hillary Clinton? Peggy Noonan Writes about "Getting" Her
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Parental Patterns Perpetuated
Lakoff Describes What Obama's Speech Does: A Piece Worth Reading
The Dilbert Strategy: Paul Krugman on the Phony Bushite Financial "Reform" Proposals
Expect Delays: An Announcement Concerning the Coming Week
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Two Kinds of Error Regarding Our Perception of Patterns
Sen. Chuck Hagel on Iraq and the "Arrogance and Incompetence" of the Bushites
Extemporaneous Writing Now Unfolding
Leadership and Connecting With People: Another Passage from Obama's 1995 Book
Five years after the invasion, the totality of our failure is clear (from The Independent, U.K.)
When a Nation Has Difficulty Facing Its Past: Japan Still Struggles
There's Running, and Then There's Running Ugly
The Long Defeat: David Brooks on Hillary's Continuing
Two Capsule Pieces on the State of our Financial System by Dean Baker
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Case of the Balinese Cockfight
Buried in the Numbers on Intrade
Beyond the Standards of Apedom (An Excerpt from DEBATING THE GOOD SOCIETY)
Interesting Public Opinion Poll Data From NBC/WSJ
John Dean Wonders: Was Obama's Speech Too Intelligent to be Politically Successful?
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: How Couples Create Important Wholes
What I Intuit the Reverend Wright Business Is Fundamentally About
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Expertise and the Mastery of Patterns
Here's Who I Think Obama Should Pick as a Running Mate
Fascinating New Idea About the Democratic Race
Poll Results on Obama's Speech on Race (from CBS)
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Market as a Fragmenting Force
Greenwald on the Media's Distorted Coverage of John McCain
When Broken People Reject the Message of Wholeness
We Need a President, Not Just a Commander-in-Chief: Brewer and Lakoff on Common Dreams
Partying Like It's 1929: Paul Krugman on the Perils of Our Unregulated Financial System
The T-Shirt of President George W. Bush
In Unusual Times, Unusual Outcomes Become Possible
"That is Leadership": Joseph Nye on Obama's Speech
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Collective Intelligence (Passage from Thomas's LIVES OF A CELL)
The "Grist for the Mill" Strategy
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: A Story from Katrin
Reactions to the Obama Speech (Compiled by Huffington Post)
Rigged Trials at Gitmo: Ross Tuttle Piece from THE NATION
Obama's Great Speech on Race This Morning
Admiral Fallon, the Danger of War Against Iran, and the Presidential Campaign
Live Radio Show Tuesday Morning: My Topic Will Relate to Wholeness
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Earliest Experience of Nurture as Template for Life
Assorted Election-Related Thoughts
The Rise of American Incompetence: Daniel Gross on Slate.com
When Push Comes (An Excerpt from DEBATING THE GOOD SOCIETY)
More Bellicose Than Bush? Paul Waldman on McCain in The American Prospect
House Rejects Telecom Immunity: Greenwald in Praise of a Possible "Sea Change" Among the Democrats
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Human Wholeness-- an Origin or a Destination?
How to Deal With the Darkness: The Key Question Facing Obama
Spangler and Me on "Winning at All Costs"
Dean Baker on 1) Hypocrisy on the Sanctity of Contracts and 2) Nonsense on the Need for Immigrants
What Hillary Has Now Revealed About Herself
Schmookler is Available for Conversation
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: An Unreasonable Kind of Rationality
If I'm Not Ready, Why Does She Want Me as Her Veep?: Obama Makes a Deft Move
David Spangler Relates His Dreams about Barack and Hillary
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Three Metaphors for the Whole (Taoist, Sufi, and Christian)
Hope and the Latent Power of the People: Another Passage from Obama's 1995 Book
Why the War on Obama: Robert Parry on Consortium News
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Our Pathways Into Deep Meaning
Here's How Obama Should Fight Back
I Can Be Heard on the Internet This Evening
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: A Story of Insight and Healing
Call Congressman Reyes to Stop Him from Caving on Telecom Immunity
BULLETIN! The Thursday Event in Santa Fe is Postponed on Account of Snow
What I'd Ask Obama, and What I Hope He'd Answer
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Patterns of Flocks in Flight
If You Could Ask Obama One Question
Winter of the Patriarchs: Harold Myerson on Castro and Nader
Schmookler is Available for Conversation
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Connection Between Truth and Wholeness
If I Were Obama, What I'd Be Tempted to Say to Hillary
Here's a Job for the Obama Campaign
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Metaphor and the "Very Secret of the Universe"
Obama Shows How to Parry Right-Wing Slime Attacks: Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com
Obama's "Inspiration" vs. Clinton's "Solutions"
What the Hell Are Democrats So Afraid of? Article by Glenn Hurowitz from Alternet
Letter to a Baby Boomer (Written by John Updike in 1996)
McCain as the Anti-Obama: Darrell Delamaide Essay in MarketWatch
Where the "Audacity of Hope" Comes From
The Importance of Narrative in a Presidential Campaign: Paul Waldman in The American Prospect
Schmookler is Available for Conversation
Is the United States Coming Apart as a Society? Some Findings Reported by Robert Putnam
This Phony McCain Bruhaha: An Unworthy Story
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Moral Instinct (Essay by Pinker)
Gambling on Obama is Our Safest Bet
McCain Panders to the Right, the Media Don't See: Ariana Huffington Article
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: This is Your Brain on Music
The Dems Should Confront McCain on National Security, Not Mirror Him: A Greenwald Article
Padilla Sues Yoo: Bazelon Argues that the Case Has Plausibility
The Clemens Hearing as National Symbol: Quite Outstanding Essay by Stephen Metcalf on Slate.com
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: "Everybody's Got Their Issues" (Patterns in Individuals and Families)
Congress Has Stood Up for Itself, at Least this Much
Schmookler is Available for Conversation
Manhood and the Fate of the Earth
What Does It Profit a Man: McCain, Former POW, Votes for Torture
Obama and Progressive Change: Article by Dave Lindorff on Common Dreams
Baker Bashes Times for Skewed Comments on Bush and the Economy
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Evil and Wholeness-- Resolving an Apparent Contradiction
This is What I Like To See: An Example of Clinton and Obama Working Together
America Doesn't Need More Cheaters for Leaders
Help Senator Leahy on FISA in the Next 24 Hours
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Metaphor and Reality
A Couple Things from Me: I Had a Dream Last Night, and Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth
Liberals Should Make Common Cause with Evangelicals: A NYTimes Column by Nicholas Kristof
A New Geologic Age—Started by Us: Article from World Science
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Yes, the Waters are Deep
How I'd Like Obama and Clinton to Campaign from Here
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Reality of Relationships
More Post-Super-Tuesday Thoughts: A Puzzlement and a Defect in the Media Coverage
Mass Eviction from the Ownership Society: A Passage from Naomi Klein
Problems of "Masculinity" in the Contemporary World
Thoughts About Obama and the Finding of Fault for the Present Darkness
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Caring About Future Generations
The Choice: Christopher Hayes in THE NATION on Obama vs. Clinton
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: An Interesting Instance of Contagion
Obama Inspires the Young (Article by my Wife, April Moore)
How the World Sees the U.S. Presidential Race: AP Report
The Latest Bush Crime, Committed Just Now in Broad Daylight (Dave Lindorff Essay)
Why I'm For Obama! Only He Can Shift the Correlation of Forces
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: A Pattern in My Life (Part II)
Greenwald's Version of "The Lament of a True Patriot"
Justice Blinds Itself to the Need to Be Blind: W. Virginia Judge Fraternizes with Party to a Suit
Government Versus Market: False Contrasts at the NYT (A Brief Dean Baker Piece)
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: A Pattern in My Life (Part I)
The Democrats' Praise-Reagan Game: Excellent Piece by Robert Parry
Lakoff on a Difference Between Hillary and Obama
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Cutting Ourselves Off from the Whole Whole is Forfeiting Our Potential Power
More Bush Lying, Cheating and Usurpation: A New York Times Editorial (but that title is mine)
The G.O.P. Going for McCain Makes Hillary a Dangerous Choice for the Dems (piece from elsewhere)
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Wholeness of Nature
Scathing Critique of Bush from Rep. Wexler on the Eve of Bush's Final State of the Union Message
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: "The Robinson Crusoe Fallacy"
A Question for This Group: How Frequent Would You Want the SEEING THINGS WHOLE Postings?
Announcing a Small Change in NSB's Front Page
The FISA Follies, Redux: NYTimes Editorial
Dems Cave to Bush on Stimulus Package: WHY? (Two Thoughts From Me)
"So Did Jesse Jackson": Clinton's Tactics Backfire in South Carolina
Questions for the Clintons: Questions for the Clintons: by Bob Herbert in the New York Times
My Little Phony: On Romney's "Reassuring" Way of Pandering (Jonathan Chait in the New Republic)
The Media's Abominable Political Coverage: Another Effective Slam by Glenn Greenwald
How Americans Found Glowing Meaning in the Nightmare of the Civil War: An Excerpt from a New Book
Kucinich to Introduce Articles of Impeachment Against Bush
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Zeitgeist as Evidence of Subtle Patterns and Connections
Wondering if My Reaction to the Clintons' Recent Behavior is Representative
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Dimensions of Wholeness (A Passage from the Parable of the Tribes)
Refight the Nineties? A Piece by Rep. Barney Frank on Huffington Post
Donations Instead of Gifts: A Report from My Wife, April
Don't Cry for Me America: Paul Krugman on the Nature of our Current Economic Crisis
The Moral Instinct: Steven Pinker Essay from the New York Times
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Order vs. Chaos in the Flow of Events
Chris Matthews and Women: An Issue Raised by Media Matters, A Letter to MSNBC by Me
Low Approval of Bush: The Latest ABC-News Poll
SEEING THE WHOLE: Science as the Discovery of Patterns and Connections
Greenwald on the Right's Defective Understanding of Law (with an E.g. in the Kucinich Case)
Twenty-five U.S. Military Officers Challenge Official Account of 9/11
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: No Man Is an Island
The Unselling of Brand-Name Drugs: An Article Showing a Good Use of Government
Jonah Goldberg's Bizarro History: A Review Article by David Neiwart in the American Prospect
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Patterns of Thought
Fascist Wolves and Democratic Sheep: From an Article by Ray McGovern
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Connection Through Time
What is Spiritually Wrong With America? Weak and Strong Paths to "Victory"
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Scenes of Coming Attractions
George McGovern Calls for Impeachment
Iowa's Message to Investors: An Interpretation from the Wall Street Journal
9/11 Commission: Our investigation was "obstructed": Piece by Greenwald
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Introducing a New Project
Maybe Mukasey Isn't Gonzalez II: Criminal Probe Opened Over CIA Tapes (Huffington News Item)
Mitt Romney's Pursuit of Tyrannical Power: Another Strong Piece from Greenwald
Mr. President: A Question I Imagine Bush Being Asked at a News Conference
The Bushite Betrayal of America: A Most Hard-Hitting, Year-End Editorial from the New York Times
A Fighter: What the Dems Most Need in a Presidential Candidate
Progressives to Arms! Krugman Says Forget about Bush--and the Middle Ground
The Torture Tape Fingering Bush as a War Criminal: Andrew Sullivan in the London Times
What is This "Cowardly Act" Bit About?
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda: Excellent Article on Regrets (from the AARP Magazine)
Conservatism as the Ideology of Freedom? David Michael Green Doesn't Think So!
What is Spiritually Wrong With America: Patterns of Weakness
Authoritarian Temptation: Greenwald on the Dangers of a Guiliani Presidency
The President-Tyrant: Article by Scott Horton from Harper's Magazine
The Change in Christmas Movies: A Case Study of the Cultural Shift from Idealism to Cynicism
Santa Claus Comes to Wall Street: Dean Baker on the Corruptions of Today's Corporate Capitalism
Is Change to be Had from Less Partisanship or from Doing Battle? Paul Krugman on Obama vs. Edwards
Media Hostility toward Anti-Establishment Candidates: Greenwald Piece at Salon.com
Democrats Who Refuse to Lead: John Aravosis' Take on Why the Dems Cave
Paul Krugman on the Ideological Roots of the Subprime Credit Crisis
Atheism's Wrong Turn: Essay by Damon Linker in The New Republic
"Global Warming Consensus Debunked," Claims NSB Reader and a Report on Senator Inhofe's Website
Debunking a Second Bogus Argument of the Climate "Skeptics"
Torture Tapes are the Watergate of Our Times: Brent Budowsky
It's Edwards the Fighter in the Iowa Homestretch: New York Times News Piece
What is Spiritually Wrong With America: The Loss of the Ideal, the Failure of the Heroic
What Is Spiritually Wrong With America: Shrinking From the Necessary Battle
Danger and Uncertainty: What Prudence and Responsibility Require
Reid Accedes to Pressure-- Half Way: Both Bills to Be Brought to the Floor
The Political Views of Academic Faculty Members: Interesting Research Reported by Harvard Magazine
Three Congressmen Make the Case for Impeachment Hearings Regarding Cheney
What's Harry Reid Up To? A Piece by Glenn Greenwald that Raises but Doesn't Answer That Question
Call to Action from the ACLU: Stop the Senate from Approving a Bad FISA Bill
Al Gore's Outstanding Speech upon Accepting the Nobel Prize
Power and Corruption: Just What Is Their Relationship?
Democratic Complicity in the Torture Picture: An Article by Glenn Greenwald
What to Make of Huckabee: A Question from Me and an Article from the American Prospect
Violence this Weekend With Religion as the Target
Schmookler is Available for Conversation: A Sunday Edition
Yahoo and the Betrayal of China's Dissidents: An Item from THE WEEK
A Most Rich Essay by George Orwell: England Your England
What Bothers Me About the "Issue" of Romney's Mormonism
Me and the Democrats: An Exchange from Opednews
ACLU Asks Us to Take This Action: Tell Senator Reid to Uphold the Rule of Law on Wiretapping
Here's One Sentence Worth Pondering:
I Bring You Glad Tidings: Two Pieces of Good News from the World Today
Three Fine Little Items from Dean Baker's "Beat the Press" Weekly Roundup
Texas Director of Science Education Fired for Not Being Neutral About Evolution: NTTIMES News Item
A Couple of Questions About the Presidential Race
Republicans and Race: Paul Krugman Piece
What's Wrong with the American Essay: Strong Statement by Christina Nehring
American Media's Stupid and Lazy Version of "Balance": Molly Ivins from 1987
Schmookler is Available for Conversation: A New Genre for NSB
America's Gulag Goes Before the Court: Marie Cocco Piece from Truthdig
Karl Rove Outdoes Even Himself in Shameless Lying
Women Leaders Under-Appreciated: Interesting Report from Slate
Reckoning: The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush-- Joseph Stiglitz in Vanity Fair
What Should Be Happening Now: The Put Up or Shut Up Challenge
America's Days of Reckoning: An Important Overview of the Current Crisis from Paul Craig Roberts
What Kind of Spiritual Ideology is Needed? An Exchange Between Morley and Me
Paul Krugman on the Influence of Big Money, the Democrats, and the Prospects for Progressive Change
Our Own Creators: Chapter 7 of THE EXPERIENCE OF MEANING
The Narrative Narrative: Marty Kaplan on Huffington Post
Sharing the Goodies of Life: An Invitation in the Spirit of Thanksgiving
What Should Be Happening Now: Honoring the Presidency Requires Dishonoring this President
The Question of Democratic Complicity
Nat Hentoff on US Torture and Gestapo Precedents
How Should We Be Dealing with the Dems? Some Disagreements Between Sam Gruen and Me
KARL ROVE TO BECOME NEWSWEEK CONTRIBUTOR: Is There no End to the Disgrace Our Media Have Become?
What Should be Happening Now: The What Kind of Man Could Do This?� Dramatization
The Sorry State of American Democracy: A Passage from a Column by Frank Rich
"Get Off My Plane!" An Emotionally Gratifying Image that Came to Me
Elizabeth Holtzman on Mukasey, Torture, and GW Bush's Legal Jeopardy
Cause-and-Effect in History Are Hard to Judge, But I Wonder
Two Little Snippets from THE WEEK
The Dog that Didn't Bark: The Story I'd Like Bill Moyers to Cover
Big Win for Watada: A Study in Courage and Honor
Confrontation Over Darfur: Carter and the Elders Seek to Bring Peace to the Conflict
"Values Voters" Are Not Just on the Right: A Piece by Eric Zorn
Why Didn't the Democrats Filibuster Mukasey: Budowsky and Greenwald Make the Same Point
Why Have the Dems Been So Weak? Bruce Fein Gives His Answer
Questions I'd Like to See Asked
What Should Be Happening Now: When Your Champions Run From the Field Rather than Fight
On the Kucinich "Impeach Cheney" Gambit: Account from Dave Lindorff
What Should Be Happening Now: When Your Champions Run From the Field Rather than Fight
Bush v. Gore: Some News About Each
The Art of the Hissy Fit: Digby Piece from Common Sense
Ours is Not the First Time to Be Burdened by History: A Repeat of an Earlier Pep Talk
Andrew Sullivan's Dubious Moral Equivalencies
Feingold's Statement: Why He'll Vote No on Mugasey
Feinstein and Shumer Are Wrong
Clueless: The Excoriation of the Congressional Democrats by the New Republic
A Serious Question for this Gathering Concerning Cheney
The Partisan: Paul Krugman's Latest Book Reviewed in the NYRB
Cheney and the Confederate Flag
Attack Iran, Get Impeached: An Idea from Ken Mayers
An Apt Stanza from "America the Beautiful"
How Congress Should Deal with the Iran Issue: A Twice-Winning Strategy Against the Bushites
Clinton Over Guiliani, Dems over Repubs --BIG TIME-- in New Poll
Is a Presidential Coup Under Way? Article by Jim Hightower
Paramount and "The Kite Runner"-- One Manifestation of Goodness in the Spirit(s) of Our Times
Bruce Fein on the Dangers of Confirming Mukasey
Soros vs. Murdock on the Open Society: Marty Kaplan on Huffington Post
OK, Al Gore, Don't Run; But for God's Sake, Do Speak Out
Good Statements from Some Democratic Pres. Candidates: A Piece by Glenn Greenwald
Krugman on Bush as the Fulfillment of Movement Conservatism
Endgame for Iraqi Oil? Article by Jack Miles
When Bush Accuses the Dems of "Wasting Time"
With Democrats Like These ... : A New York Times Editorial
Selfishness vs. Concern for Community: The Shoe Doesn't Quite Seem to Fit
ACLU Saying: Press Congress to Stand With Senator Dodd at His Line in the Sand
Getting Beyond Preaching to the Choir
Who Restarted the Cold War? A Piece by Pat Buchanan
Lawbreaker in Chief: Jed Rubenfeld of Yale Law School on Mukasey's Dangerous Statement
How confirming Michael Mukasey will further cripple Congress: Frank Bowman in Slate.com
I Ask You: Can A Rockefeller be Bought for $42,000
The (Surprising) Magnitude of the Impact of the Fear of Death
Support the American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007: Bill Introduced in the House by Rep. Ron Paul
On Torture and American Values: A New York Times Editorial
Gore Derangement Syndrome: Krugman Does It Again
Linda Jean's Eloquent Testimony about the Commericialization of the Schools
A Glimpse of the Dark Reality Via the Attorney General Hearings
The Condition of America Today: A Many-Dimensional Look
Ten Questions for (Attorney General nominee) Michael Mukasey: Excellent Contribution from THE NATION
Sharing Great Readings: An Invitation
How Basic American Principles are Getting Labeled "Far Left": Piece by Greenwald
A Teachable Moment Regarding the Right-Wing Slime Machine: Paul Krugman on the Graeme Frost Affair
A Step Away From the Imperial Presidency: New York Times Editorial
What's the NASCAR-Bushite Connection? An Inquiry Into the Spirit(s) of Our Times
Spies, Lies and FISA: A New York Times Editorial
Thom Hartmann on Coulter's and Scalia's Dangerous Notions on Church and State
American Tears-- Eloquent Piece by Naomi Wolf
Oh, How Humankind Has Squandered Its Historical Opportunities: TimesOnline on Putin's Threats
The Commercialization of Our Schools: An Article by April Moore
The Humorless Hillary Has Come a Long Way
Carter on Bushite Torture: The Kind of the-Emperor-Has-No-Clothes Moment We Need More Of
Inviting Your Thoughts About the Particular Candidates
Sam Gruen on the Pernicious Right-Wing Myth-Making
Explaining the Democrats' Weakness in Spiritual Terms: Liberalism and the Spirit(s) of Our Times
Enthusiasm is "the God Within": Part of Goethe's Admirable Gift
The Moral Schizophrenia of Keith Olbermann on Countdown: More on the Spirit(s) of Our Times
John Wayne as an American Archetypal Figure: An Invitation to a Discussion
Brent Budowsky on Clarence Thomas, and a Question from Me
The Biology of Political Orientation: An Article from THE WEEK, and a Critique from Me
The Spirit(s) of the Times: An NFL Football Story
Worries About What the Roberts Court Will Do This Year: A New York Times Editorial
French President Sarkozy on America
Portrait of a Bushite: Head of Foreign Service Group Calls on State Dept. IG to Resign
Exploring the Spirit(s) of the Times: A Possible New Focus for NSB
A Fantasy About Bush at the U.N.
From the ACLU: "Ask your Members of Congress: Will You Commit to the Constitution?"
Something Funny from Gore, and Some Additional Thoughts About Him
What the Political Futures Markets Are Saying
The Democrats Could've Handled the MoveOn Vote Strategically: Eskow on Huffington Post
Krugman on Alan Greenspan's Revisionist History
The Politicization of the Department of Justice: Elizabeth de la Vega Hits Another Long Ball
What If This Should Prove a "Long Twilight Struggle"?
Of Ladybugs and Ladies: Chapter 6 of THE EXPERIENCE OF MEANING
Inattentional Blindness: Another Approach to the Question, Why Can They Not See?
Condi and Stanford: From a New York Times Article
John Nichols, of THE NATION, Proposes Bruce Fein as Attorney General
How the Media Treated Gore in 2000: A Piece from Newsweek
Gonzo on Habeus Corpus: Robert Parry's "Favorite Memory"
Speak to Me: Chapter 5 of THE EXPERIENCE OF MEANING
Selective Prosecution: A New York Times Editorial
Katrina All the Time: Another Excellent Piece by Paul Krugman
Regarding the Next Two Weeks on NSB
Tie the President's Hands Regarding Making War on Iran
Why Bush Governs from the Gut: Good Synthesis by David Michael Green
On Behalf of Formula Industry, Bush's HHS Toned Down Breast-Feeding Ads: Washington Post Article
History Will Not Absolve Us: Nat Hentoff on American War Crimes
A Radio Show of Mine, Available Online, that I Commend for Your Listening Enjoyment
A Good Battlefield: The Choice of the Next Attorney General
Burning the Law in a Riot of Treason: William Pitt on Gonzales and Beyond
White House Shell Game: NY Times Editorial
Thinking in the Language of Blood and Honor: A Historical Perspective
The Dumbest Move the Dems Could Make: Michael Tomasky Argues Against Impeachment
Interpreting Karl Rove's Campaign About Hillary Clinton
Leahy Threatens Bush Aides With Contempt
Tappers and Listeners: A Relevant Challenge from a Book Entitled "Made to Stick"
Law or Lawlessness: Article by the Executive Director of Truthout
Guiliani's Foreign Policy Folly: An Article by Fred Kaplan on Slate.com
Arianna Huffington on the Media Coverage of the Utah Mining Accident
Whaddyamean, 'Mean'?: Chapter 4 of THE EXPERIENCE OF MEANING
The Bushite Era as a Re-Enactment of the American Civil War
Good Piece on Rove's Enduring Legacy (from Huffington Post)
Bush and Rove: Collaborators in the Theater of the Moral Lie
A Good Idea about Impeachment from Cheryl Biren-Wright
What Good Way Forward Do You Envision Unfolding?
On the Matter of the Right to Bear Arms and the Prevention of Tyranny in America
The Virtues and Weaknesses of America's Conservative Culture
What Brings Light to Our Lives? An Invitation to Share Our Experiences
The New FISA and the Constitution: Another Exchange in the Bruce Fein Interview
In Gonzo We Trust: Good Piece, with Good Comments, from Slate
You Swore on the Bible: What an Oath Means
NY Times Editorial on the "Appalling" Democratic Cave-In on Surveillance
Another Report Concerning Church-State Problems in the U.S. Military
You are the Blind One: A Reply to a Bushite from Virginia
The Dems Disheartening Cave to Bush on FISA
ACLU: US Constitution in Grave Danger: UPI Story Appearing on Truthout
Contemptible Conduct at Justice: Boston Globe Editorial
The Tillman Question: Is There Anything to the Idea He Was Murdered?
The Week That Was: Discussion Question on What's Occurred and What's Shifted These Past Eight Days
House Passes Lee Bill to Ban Permanent Bases in Iraq
Emails Detail RNC Voter Suppression in Five States: Truthout Piece
Bush's magical shield from criminal prosecution: An Article by Glenn Greenwald
We've Got to Grab the Media by the Lapels and Shout, "Impeachment is a Real Issue, You Idiots!"
Why has world opinion of the U.S. changed dramatically since 2000?: A Glenn Greenwald Piece
All the President's Enablers: A Column by Paul Krugman
A Sweet Little Story: The Masai and the Lions
Reactionary Activism: Article by Alan Dershowitz on Huffington Post
Hanging Together: How About Impeaching Them on Conspiracy Charges
Report Suggests Laws Broken in Attorney Firings: News Article from Washington Post
Congress's Power To Compel: Column from the Washington Post
The Importance of the Leadership Group for the "Impeach Them Now" Movement
A Way of Seeing Dick Cheney for What He Is
Just What the Founders Feared: An Imperial President Goes to War (NYTimes Editorial)
News Bulletin: Bush Approval Rating Tumbles To 25 Percent
National Security Directive No. 51 and the Need for Impeachment: A Commentary by Craig Barnes
Useful Information on How to Lobby Pelosi for Impeachment
Conyers: 3 More Congress Members and I'll Impeach
Forgiveness: Revisiting the aftermath of last year's shootings in an Amish community
Writing Congress About Impeachment: One Exchange from a Thread Here
About Impeachment: Third Installment of the Bruce Fein Interview
Organize to Push Congress Toward Impeachment
This Is the Project for Which I Went to England Last Spring
A Meeting Down Under (and I Don't Mean Australia)
The Bushite Muzzling of the Surgeon General: A New York Times Editorial
Fein Interview: Second Installment
The Movement to Impeach Takes Shape: An Email I Received
The "Impeachment" Button I Propose
Impeachment: The Time Has Come!
The Darksider: Hendrik Hertzberg on Cheney in the New Yorker
Sen. Boxer Says to Put Impeachment onto the Table: Dave Lindorff Article (from opednews)
New Interview with Bruce Fein: Where Do Things Stand With Upholding the Constitution?
House Panel Clears Way for Contempt Proceedings Against Miers: AP News Article from Truthout
Beyond Recklessness: An Essay by Paul Craig Roberts
A Letter Across the Political Divide
Arm Bands Till Impeachment? --Robert Pleznac's Proposal
Sentiment Shifting Against Bush: A Piece by Dave Lindorff
"I Can Do No Other": My Philosophy of Trying
The Bushites Still Don't Get It on Iraq: A Column by Robert Novak, of All People
What Do You Think of This Idea: A Letter to Americans Who Have Supported Bush?
And W, You're No Churchill: A Washington Post Column
Two Examples of How the Pursuit of Truth Can Be Betrayed
Shame on Bush -- and us: A Strong Column from the Los Angeles Times
The Pattern of Bush/Cheney Criminality: Brent Budovsky Puts the Pieces Together
Bush Gives America the Finger: A Powerful Piece by the Estimable Elizabeth de la Vega
Making the Connections: It's Time to Show America the Dark Meanings Beneath the Scandals
Dennis Ross: 18 Months to Avoid War with Iran (from Huffington Post)
Abuse of Executive Privilege: New York Times Editorial
Personal Integrity, Institutional Integrity: Thoughts from Egil Krogh, Digby and Me
Greenwald on How Much we DON'T Know About Bush's Illegal Wiretapping
Bush and Cheney Should Resign: Olbermann's Latest Prophetic Broadside
Madison on the Impeachable Nature of the Abuse of the Pardon:
The Commutation: The Latest in a String of Scandals
The Rule of Law Upheld in the Courts: A Passage from Conceptual Guerilla on Daily Kos
Stories of the Bible: An Entry-way into Some Useful Discussions?
Expose the Obstructionists in Congress: Bob Borosage on HuffingtonPost
More Thoughts During a Dark Week
Another Piece on Cheney's Arrogations and Usurpations: Sidney Blumenthal in Salon.com
Wired For Morality: Neurological Evidence that Altruism is Built into Human Nature
Discussion Question: What do you find helps you get through these dark times?
A Call Cheney's Impeachment-- from Bruce Fein on Slate.com
Two More Exchanges About the Good and the Evil in Religion
Welcome Signs from America's Youth: Speaking Moral Truth in the Oval Office
Cheney's Arrogations II: A ThinkProgress Account of a WashPost Profile
Obama's Decline in the Polls: An Article from Huffington Post
Hope May Spring Eternal, But It Also Has Its Dry Spells
Religion: Its Mixing of the Truth of the Spirit with the Contamination of Power
Toward a Discussion of Religion
The Media Ignored One of the Biggest Stories in American History: A piece by Robert Parry
Soldiers, Slaves and the Liberal State
This Came to Me as an Email: Observations from an Author Named Judy
Bush Flips Off Spotted Owls: Environmental Piece from Truthout
Why Do Good People Turn Evil? A Review Article by Cass R. Sunstein
To Morley: Why Cooperation Might be Your Best Strategy
The "Impeach Gonzales Movement": Something Maybe We Can All Get Behind
Hear My Radio Show From Ohio of Yesterday
Conyers Closes in on Karl and his Rove-bots: A Piece by Greg Palast
The Democrats and the Hillary Trap for 2008
Achieving Our Purposes: Thoughts About NSB
The Arrogance of Justice Kennedy: An Article from the New Republic with a Response from Me
Jonathan Swift's Dim View of Humankind: Passages from the End of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
The Masculinity Crisis on the American Right: Excellent Piece from Glenn Greenwald
Democrats and Republicans and Where to Look for Deliverance from Evil: A Jerry-Andy Exchange
Building Bridges for Building a Movement, Building Bridges for Building Wholeness
Here's What Comes After that Autobiographical Part: "What Makes Something Good?"
Orwell and Huxley: Two Visions of How the Truth Would Get Killed
Fort Leavenworth Chaplains Accused of Anti-Semitic Publishing: A Piece from Truthout
The great right-wing fraud to repudiate George W. Bush: Glenn Greenwald Piece
The Evil and the Good, the Power and the People: Second Installment of a Morley-Andy Exchange
Two Pieces About the Scandal Behind the U.S. Attorneys Scandal
The Evil and the Good, the Power and the People: First Installment of a Morley-Andy Exchange
Why Bush Should Pardon Paris: Funny, Cutting Piece from Huffington Post
Lies, Sighs and Politics: Krugman on Target Again
Shaken to My Moral Foundations: An Autobiographical Account (Part 2 of 2)
Shaken to My Moral Foundations: An Autobiographical Account (Part 1 of 2)
Sen. Chris Dodd: Restore Constitution and Habeus Corpus
Begging the Question: One More Harvest from the "Outrage" Exchanges
Brzezinski's Warning Re Possible Pretext for War Against Iran
A Propos of Hillary's "We're Safer Now" Remark
William Rivers Pitt: On the Confusion about Iraq among Americans as Revealed by the Polls
Where in Your Life Have You Lately Encountered Something Wonderful?
Huffington Interviews Gore, Plus Comments from Amazon on THE ASSAULT ON REASON
The Media and John Edwards: A Column by Jeff Cohen, and Some Possibly Relevant Poll Results
Dean Baker Tries to Teach the WashPost and USA Today About Supposed Labor Shortages
If It Ain't Fixed: Chapter 3 of THE EXPERIENCE OF MEANING
Bush's Appalling *Iraq is Korea* Analogy: A Piece By Fred Kaplan, and a Comment From Me
NY Times Blasts Supreme Court Decision
Anonymous Posting: There's a Better Way
My Experience With Outrage as a Fuel for Changing the World
Open Forum (#3): What Would You Like to Discuss?
Why Didn't You Stand Your Ground, Mr. Carter?
Trust and Betrayal: Paul Krugman, On Target and Eloquent As Usual
Wolfowitz and the Danger of Un-Verified Certainties
The Rule of the Lie: The Next Generation (of GOP leadership)
Morality and the Belief in One God: Is There a Link?
Two Takes Re Gore's ASSAULT ON REASON
A Snap-Shot of American Public Opinion Today
The "Irony" in the "Drinking the Kool-Aid" Metaphor
Open Forum (#2): What Would You Like to Discuss?
My New Willingness to Talk About Divisive Issues
Why No Impeachment: Interesting Article from Salon.com
The "Voter Fraud" Fraud: A Good Piece from Slate.com
Radio Show Tomorrow on Ohio Public Radio: The Poetry of the World
The World is a Dangerous Place: What's America's Role in That?
Maybe the GOP Base is Not as Deluded As I Thought: Surprising Piece from Pat Buchanan
The Other Republicans Are Almost As Bad: Paul Krugman on the GOP Candidates for '08
Some Clarifying Challenges: Chapter 2 of THE EXPERIENCE OF MEANING
Trenchant Criticism of the Military FROM the Military: Fred Kaplan in Slate.com
Four Points Made by Jonathan Turley Tonight on COUNTDOWN
Open Forum: What Would You Like to Discuss
The Poetry of the World: Where Have You Lately Encountered Something Wonderful?
Something Is Not Right: The Racial Divide on Barry Bonds
"You Can't Have It Both Ways": An Exchange with a Reader
What Holds Imperialist Ambitions in Check?
The Democrats Bear Responsibility for Restoring Habeus Corpus: A Column by Greenwald
Wimps, Wussies and W.: A Column from the Los Angeles Times
Here Obama Pays the Price for Telling People What They DON'T Want to Hear
The Limits of Outrage-- Part II
Discussion Question: Where is Gonzo-Gate Heading?
He's Impeachable, You Know-- Op/ed column from the NYT
Alberto Gonzales's Safety Net: A Piece by Elizabeth Holtzmann
How Does the Moral Order of the World Work?
The Difference Between Bush and Blair
The Pathological State of America's Broadcast Journalism: Some Striking Passages from Greenwald
Here's Where You Can Find the Transcript for Moyers' Powerful "Buying the War" Documentary
My Last Radio Show to Minnesota: Good Discussion Available Online
For Your Weekend Pondering: "Haunted," the first chapter of The Experience of Meaning
Subpoena Power: Interesting Issue But Hyperventilating Analysis from Daily Kos
The "Stab in the Back" Trap: An Article from Truthout
Well! John Kerry Has a Good Idea For Taking the Fight to the Bushites
The Question George Tenet Should Be Asked: An Excellent Article by Karen Kwiatkowski
This, Pat Robertson, Is How a Nation Gets Punished for Its Sins
Greenwald on a Sea Change Occurring Now in America
OSHA Leaves Worker Safety in Hands of Industry
Winners and Losers in America: An Observation, A Question, A Hypothesis
Dennis Ross on How to Deal With Iran
About that Presidential Medal of Freedom, Mr. Tenet: A Piece by James Fallows
Our Countrymen, Whether We Like It Or Not: Some Exchange About My Proposal in Fear Factor V
An Interesting Perspective on the Department of Justice Under Gonzales
Dean Baker Catches the NY TIMES Publishing Some Nonsense That's Not Fit to Print
Fear Factor V: The Better Way of Closing the Fear Gap (Or, How the Left Can Help Heal the Right)
Gore Campaign Team Assembles in Secret: News Article from the TELEGRAPH (UK)
What My Mother Taught Me About Elitism and Human Value
Another Expert Perspective on Gonzo-Gate: Elizabeth de la Vega on Truthout
Sweet Little Lies: Another Good Piece from Krugman
A Vote in Vermont for Impeachment: Article by Lindorff, Plus Commentary by Me
A Court Decision Handed Down In Iran: An Eye-Opener Perhaps
Paul Craig Roberts on "The State or the People" (Plus My Points of Difference From Him)
Interesting Findings on Why Americans Eat Too Much: From a Review Article
Me on the Radio in Washington State: Here's the Archived Recording
The Chess Player vs. the Tyrant (Kasparov vs. Putin): A Book Review Article from the London Times
What about the US Attorneys Who Kept Their Jobs: A Bad-Smelling Case in Wisconsin
Two Views of the Wolfowitz Matter: Where Does the Truth Lie?
The Fantasy Behind the Scandal: A New York Times Editorial
Showing the Pattern of Corruption: A Small News Item from Robert Novak (of all people)
Eddie Murphy and His Gift: A Tragedy and He's Proud of It
For God's Sake: An Article by Paul Krugman
Destroy Gonzales-ism: A Fine Piece by Brent Budowsky
A Wonderful Essay --"Pearls Before Breakfast"-- With at Best Tangential Relevance to NSB
Discussion Question: What Should Be Said about this Imus Affair?
It's Time to Name It: Dems Should Now Call the Bushites the Liars That They Are
Christopher Hitchens' "The You Decade"
This Seems Most Dishonest: Senator Levin on What the Congress Will Do on Iraq
Fear Factor III: Fear as the Instrument for Debasing a People's Consciousness
Will Americans Now Seek Knowledgeable Leaders? --A Piece from the GUARDIAN (UK) by Howell Raines
The More We Hear the Worse It Looks: New York Times on the Hearings on the U.S. Attorney Firings
Wholeness: It's There AND It's in Process
The Rule of Law: A Atrong Statement from Senator Kennedy
Fascinating and Unexpected Experience of Censorship at Heathrow Airport
Designated Hitter: A Role for Gore
Paul Krugman on the GOPs Problems Growing Out of Rising Income Inequality
Fear Factor II: A Worldview Pervaded By Fear
Impeach Gonzalez: Arianna On How To Deal With Bushite Stonewalling
Military Support for GOP Is in Free Fall: News Story from US News and World Report
Proposing Diplomatic Language to End the Iran/Britain Stalemate
Discussion Question: What's New That's Important?
Inserting Politics Into Justice: A Piece by E.J. Dionne
We're Winning, But the Nature of the Victory Remains to be Determined
Big investors seek action on carbon limits: News Article from Marketwatch
Executive Privilege and the Coming Rove/Miers Subpoenas: A Piece from Elsewhere
A Heavyweight in More Ways Than One: Another Thing Gore Should Do
Fear Factor I: A Few General Thoughts on Fear in the Human Sphere
Bush Betrays America: Piece by Bob Burnett
Democrats in Congress Kick Oversight Into Overdrive: From the L.A. Times
From England, A Quick Note: A Gap in My Access to the Internet
Desensitized to Presidential Crimes
Unfinished Cosmos: Chapter 11 (the last chapter) of THE RIVER AND ITS CHANNEL
Here's Where You Can Hear My Interview on the Radio Show, "America Back on Track"
Army of Altruists: An Intriguing Essay from Harper's Magazine
"Bogus Arguments": Report on the Radio Show
Evangelical Christians Attack Use of Torture by US: News Report from the Guardian (UK)
From Elsewhere on the "Support Our Troops" Myth
When Loyalty Is Not a Virtue: A Glimpse into Bush's Amoral World
Gonzalez's Head on a Platter: Some Thoughts about Power and the Corporate Press
Oh, to Be in England, Now That April's Almost Here: NSB Over the Next Couple of Weeks
MP3s of My Radio Shows in Bellingham, WA
As an Issue, Is Ann Coulter a Trivial Distraction?
Ann Coulter as a Great Opportunity on the Battlefield Against the Bushites
Developments on the Battlefield of the U.S. Attorneys Scandal
The Shamelessness of Ann Coulter and the Shame of the Right
Our Relationship With Our Imperfect World: Part II-- The Persistence of Culture
Two Strong Pieces About the US Attorney Scandal: Maybe We Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
A Piece from Voice of America (!): Sen. Webb Seeks to Tie Bush's Hands
Why Civilization Has Developed in Such a Tormented and Destructive Way: THE PARABLE OF THE TRIBES
Sam'Gruen on "Win First, Negotiate Generously Later"
Speaking This Sunday in Durango, Colorado
A Lovely Radio Show: Our Relationships With Animals
Follow the Pressure: Some Questions About the U.S. Attorney Firings
Andrew Sullivan's Take on the Libby Verdict
Our Relationship With Our Imperfect World: Part I-- Acknowledging the Good in the Imperfect
Strong Statement on Re-Establishing the Bill of Rights and the Rule of Law: New York Times Editorial
What Have You Learned About Fear?: A Discussion Question
This From the Gang Whose Mantra is "Support Our Troops": It's Not Just Walter Reed
Mutual Contempt: A Portrait of Polarized America
Glenn Greenwald Sums Up the State of Our Constitutional Crisis
Interesting Snippets from Elsewhere
Democrats Issue First Subpoenas: A Couple of News Articles
Unfinished Creatures: Chapter 10 of THE RIVER AND ITS CHANNEL
Not A Great Country To Grow Up In: UNICEF Report
A Constructive Exchange Between Morley and Me
Can You Believe This? Read What the Readers at Fox News Have to Say
It's Got to Be Gore: Part V-- What Gore Should Do
"Shut Up, Cheney" and "Go Home, Hillary and Carville": A Couple of Tough Pieces from Huffington Post
How Should Gore Speak in His (Expected) One Minute Tomorrow Night?
An Earlier Piece on Coming to Terms with the Pain (of Living in Times Like These)
Bogus Arguments Impede Iraq Discussion: My Next Topic on Virginia Radio
A Nobel Economist's Interesting and Narrow-Minded Analysis
Wholeness and the Rule of Law: A Small Point
Congress and the People: Where's the Obstacle?
The Revolution Option, and Why It Stinks
Conyers and the Path of Impeachment
It's Got to Be Gore-- Part IV: The Essential Quality that Makes Gore the Leader for These Times
Bill Moyers: A Passage from His "What Democracy Means"
A Brilliant Military Strategist on Why Counter-Insurgency in Iraq is Futile
Something Really Good Pelosi Said, And Something She Ought to Add to Make it Even Better
I Hope You'll Read This--"Visions: One Big Thing I Once Saw"
I Expect Libby to be Found Guilty
It's Got to Be Gore: Part III-- There's No Adequate Alternative
Just to Make Sure You Know About the NoneSoBlind Newsletter
Gore and the "Right Wing Scream Machine"
The Growth of Corporate Power: A Crucial Element Behind the Rise of Bushite Fascism
Here's A Link to an MP3 of a Radio Interview I Did Yesterday in Phoenix
Who Is To Be Believed: The Anti-Bushite Blogosphere or the World's Financial Markets?
It's Got to Be Gore: Part II-- What Does it Make Sense to Hope For?
It's Got to Be Gore: Part I-- The Challenge Facing the Next President
An Interesting but Ultimately Unpersuasive Take on Guiliani's candidacy from Glenn Greenwald
And President Bush, You're No Winston Churchill: Glenn Greenwald Reveals a Stark Contrast
A Very Important Story: Two Good Pieces on the Politicized Replacement of U.S. Attorneys
Steps in the Dance: Chapter 9 of A RIVER AND ITS CHANNEL
Elizabeth de la Vega on the Administration's Latest Gambit on FISA
Advancing Against the Bushites: Fronts in the War
Try This at Home: Getting in Touch with the Meaning of Torture
You're Doubtful About America's Moral Degradation? Did You See Those Super Bowl Ads?
Congress and the Dismantling of the Bushite Regime: Some Thoughts
Frank Luntz on the Dire Portents for the Republicans: A Robert Novak Column from the Washington Post
Bush and Putin: That Kindredness of Spirit
What Would be the Political Implications of an Oscar --and/or a Nobel Prize-- for Al Gore
Benefit of the Doubt, a Piece by Sam Gruen
The Challenge of Affluence: A Root of Our Moral Crisis
Thoughts Regarding "The Great Decider"
Tie the President's Hands Regarding Making War on Iran
About that Problem of Polarization: Repeating Two Comments from Earlier Threads
We've Seen How This Cowboy Movie Ends
Good Analysis and Strategy from Roy Eidelson
A Small Potpurri of Good Stuff from Elsewhere
Rolling Stone Piece on a Gore Presidential Candidacy in 2008
Adventures in the Excluded Middle: Chapter 8 of THE RIVER AND ITS CHANNEL
How the Press Should Press People Who Make Statements Like Guiliani's
What's With that Stubborn One-Third of the American Public?
The Challenge of Thinking Strategically: Another Exchange from Another Site
How to Cope with the Bushites' "Who Lost Iraq?" Game
A Small Anthology of Goodies from Elsewhere
Two Insightful Takes on the Underlying Dynamics of this Disastrous Presidency
For Your Weekend Reading: An Essay on a Completely Unrelated Theme
The Oil Companies' Disinformation on Global Warming
What to Think about the Bushites' FISA-Court Reversal: Greenwald Hits the Nail on the Head
Are the Bushites Bringing on Impeachment? A Speculation
Power for Its Own Sake: Dahlia Lithwick and Glenn Greenwald on the Bushites
Know When to Hold 'Em, When to Fold 'Em
The Responsibility of the People
Three Good Pieces from Elsewhere: Dean Baker, Jay Bookman, and Michael Klare
The Dance of Integration: Chapter 7 of THE RIVER AND ITS CHANNEL
Two Thoughts about Kennedy and Bush and the Surge
Discussion Questions Concerning the Dems' Choices Re the Iraq War
Message to a Conservative Christian About the Homosexual Morality Issue
Paul Loeb on Gerald Ford's Failure of Nerve (Plus Some Comments by Me)
Larry Beinhart's Interesting Piece: 2007-- Year of Madness
New Scandal, New Opportunities: A Possible Strategic Opening for the Democrats
Bush's "Surge": An Interpretation that Connects it with the Regime's Deep Darkness
Keith Olbermann's Latest Prophetic Denunciation of this President (Plus a Bit of Commentary from Me)
Can't You See? Crucial Differences Too Many on the Left Seem to Miss
Planning a Kitchen Renovation While the House Burns Down: An Exchange with a Reader
Our Next President Needs to Be Well-Seasoned
Glenn Greenwald on Bush and his Praise for the Rule of Law
Paul Krugman on the Failed Republican Revolution
Abusive Families and the Pattern of Fascism: Thoughts Prompted by a Couple of Good Comments
A Parable for Our Times: A Fine Bill Moyers Piece Suitable for the Christmas Season
Sequel to the "Good Will Toward Men" Essay
What Religious Liberals and Conservatives Have in Common: A Sermon by Doug Muder
Why "Good Will Toward Men" Has Become More of a Challenge for Me: My Christmas Thoughts
Might This Be a Way Into Investigating Bushite Lawlessness? A Newly Disclosed Violation
Evil and the Oval Office: A Not-Fully-Baked Idea
More on the "Democrat-Hating Lefties, Get Real" Piece: Comments from Elsewhere
Reason and Emotion in the Anti-Bushite Movement, Or, Hey Democrat-hating Lefties, Get Real
John Dean on Impeaching Lower-Level Bushites
Glenn Greenwald on What Our Media Do and What They Should Do
Disagreement about Zbig: Acknowledging the Problem of Power
An Addendum to the "Let Impeachment Ripen" Piece
Let Things Ripen Some on Impeachment: Patience Will Be Rewarded
The Pro-Life Position on Climate Change
Two Exchanges on How to Regard the Democrats
What Is This About? Wonderings About the Film-making of Mel Gibson
Glued to the Tube for Zbig: A Fantasy of a Hearing the Democrats Should Convene
The Good News Implied in Feingold's Decision Not to Run
The Democrats and the Anti-Bushite Movement: How This Important Alliance Should Work
Stranger in a Familiar Land: The Introduction to My Book, *The Illusion of Choice*
Discussion Question: What is the Condition of America's Electoral System?
Traditionalists' Muddled Thinking About God and the Good: A Bit of Philosophy
I'll Be Delivering a Sermon in the Los Angeles Area This Sunday Morning
When Failure is Better than Success: What Americans, and the World, Owe to the Disaster in Iraq
A Couple of Things I Posted This Week on Other Sites
One View of How to Get Out of Iraq: The Proposal of McGovern and Polk
The Idea of Righting the Imbalance: Chapter 6 of "The River and Its Channel"
McCain: Still Waiting to Hear a True Note
The Dems' First Step on Iraq: The Kind of Hearings We Need
Two Fine Passages from Two Fine Bloggers: Glenn Greenwald and William Rivers Pitt
Good Words from Two Democratic Senators: Chris Dodd and Jim Webb
Vignettes of the State of Culture
An Exchange About *None of the Above* and about Bill Moyers Specifically
Dean Baker's Weekly "Beat the Press" Round-up
Waging Battle, Building Peace: The Paradox Confronting the Democrats
Krugman's Fine Piece: The Great Revulsion
Craig Barnes on the Underlying Problem in the American Body Politic
The Dems' New Power: Investigative Hearings Done Right
The Criterion for Victory Today
The Fault Lies Not in Our Stars ("Luckless Nation") But in Ourselves (the American People)
A Piece (from Huffington Post) on the Right's Manifest Hypocrisy Problem
Moral Exo-Skeletons and Endo-Skeletons: A Key Divide in the American Body Politic
The John Kerry Gaffe: Schmookler and Olbermann Commentaries
GOP Nonsense: Fighting Them Over There So We Don't Have to Fight them Here at Home
The "Prophetic Social Movement": Then and Now
The Democrat Could be Daisy Duck and It Would Still Be Important to Vote for Her
Disreputable Push-Polling Comes to New Mexico's First Congressional District
From Olbermann's Latest Powerful Statement
"Would Americans really be so superficial?"
The Political Importance of 'Family Values': An Interview with Riane Eisler (First Round)
Can this Bushite Era Become an Inoculation Against Such Evils in the Future?
Good Piece on the Consequences of North Korea Going Nuclear
New York Times Editorial the Bushites Ignoring Science Again
Discussion Question: What's the Best Reasonably Realistic Scenario for the Next Six Years?
Confirmation of the Peripheral Role of the Theocratic Element in this Bushite Regime
From Idealism to This! A Baby-Boomer Laments How the Future Ain't What it Used to Be
Keith Olbermann, Once Again, Minces No Words: Denouncing Bush's Lies
Upbeat Musings by Glenn Greenwald on the Foley/GOP Scandal
Two Looks into the Spirit of Things
Get a Grip America! It's Dangerous for a People to be Ruled by Fear
The Tragedy of the "Good Soldier"
Discussion Question: How Should We Judge the Threat from Radical Islam?
Some of My Thoughts on the "Sacred Values" Question
The Movie Discussion Idea: Where Do We Go From Here
Two Things From Elsewhere on the Torture Issue
The Prophetic Voice of Keith Olbermann: Appreciations and Critiques Invited Here
More of Morley and Me: The Dark and the Light and the Problem of Polarization
Discussion Question: Why This Desire to Torture, Anyway?
Greenwald on the State of Play with Two Urgent Matters of Bushite Crime
Larger Forces and Individual Responsibility
A New Feature on NoneSoBlind: Watching and Discussing Movies
Evil as the Perpetuation of Broken Patterns: A Historical Perspective
An Open Letter to My Old Harvard Classmate, Tom Ridge
What Kind of Sacred Principles Do We Need?
Keith Olbermann's Most Recent Broadside at Bush
Two Questions to Aid Me on a Coming Piece of Work
Resources for America's Rescue: Help With This Anthology
Katherine Harris's Recent Words Connect with the UnAmerican Nature of the Bushite Power Grab
"Bush Doctrine in Tatters": An Article in the San Francisco Chronicle and a Reply From Me
Vignettes of Hope for America: Help With This Anthology
Two Important Pieces from Elsewhere Regarding How the Mainstream Media Fail Us
Making Sense of Senator McCain's New Dance on the War
Where in Your Life Do You Encounter "the Sacred"?
"Class Warfare" and the Abbott-and-Costello Routine
Shameless: A Word the Dems Should Now Introduce Thus
The Path of Unfolding Does Not Run Straight (Chapter 5 of THE RIVER AND ITS CHANNEL)
The Link Between How We Think and Whether We'll Win: I. Majority Public Support Is Our Only Way
A Couple of Passages from Recent Threads
Good Pieces from Elsewhere: Krugman, Holbrooke, and Greenwald
Vignettes of Moral Rot: Can You Contribute?
What the Democrats Should Be Saying in the Wake of this Thwarting of the Terrorist Plot
How the World Might Begin to Heal
The Message in the Coming Lieberman Defeat: It's More than the War
"Weltanschauung"-- A Story of THE PARABLE OF THE TRIBES and Academe
Discussion Question: Where Do You Think the United States is Heading Over the Next 24 Months?
Don't Give the Bushites So Much Credit
Proof that the 9/11 Commission Didn't Do Its Job and Evidence It Doesn't Care
Three Good Passages from Elsewhere
A Couple of Possibly Important But Not Yet Well-Thought-Out Ideas
The Blessings of the Receptive Mind (Chapter 4 of THE RIVER AND ITS CHANNEL)
Liberal Christianity Has Not Yet Risen to the Occasion
Message to Israel: Being Tough May be Necessary, But a Good Jew Must Be More
Compendium of Good Passages from Elsewhere
Good Stuff From Elsewhere This Past Week
On the Importance of Not Seeing the Defects of Our Sytem as Its Essence
The Strangely Unhumbled: How Can Guys that Got it So Wrong Remain So Cocksure
Another Dimension to the "World Falling Apart" Piece
How George Bush Has Weakened America, and How that Explains Why the World is Falling Apart
The Most Important Thing I've Ever Written (Weekend Reading)
Some Ideas I'm Juggling in My Mind
We Need Leadership at Center Stage
A Compilation of Good Stuff from Elsewhere
Images, Graven and Other: The Next Installment of "The River and Its Channel"
Another Exchange to Share: This One on the Church/State Issue
Directing the Attention of the American People: Bush and Gore Contrasted
Manhood and the Fate of the Earth
The Bruce Fein Interview in Its Entirety
Ellis Weiner's Thoughts about the Lying in America Today
Interesting Passages from Elsewhere
Letting Reality Speak (Chapter 3 of THE RIVER AND ITS CHANNEL)
Another Exchange-- This Time With a Critique Presumably from the Left
Come Play "If 'Liar, Liar' Came to America"
What Passes for an Argument Among the Bushites: An Email Exchange with One of My Critics
How Can the Democrats Be So Clueless (About How to Fight the Bushites)?
Here's that Open Letter to Members of Congress: You Swore on the Bible
Question for Discussion: What's Happening in the Polities of the Anglo-Saxon World?
John McCain as Western Hero: Senator, You're No John Wayne
When You Hear Hoofbeats, Think of Horses, Not Zebras: Thoughts About My Financial Guy and Me
Discussion Question: How Do You Deal with the Matter of Hope vs. Despair?
For Your Weekend Reading: The Second Chapter of "The River and Its Channel"
An Interview With Bruce Fein: A Conservative Concerned About Presidential Lawlessness
You Swore on the Bible: What an Oath Means
You Swore on the Bible: Introductory Remarks
Alarming, That this Struggle Against the Bushites is So Much A Left-vs.-Right Thing
An Anthology of Good Pieces from Elsewhere
You Conservatives Are Being Conned: Please Help Me Flesh Out This Idea for My Virginia Radio Show
The Bushite Regime and the Collapse of Civilizations
Video of an Informal Talk and Q & A: Schmookler Again at the Washington Ethical Society
Where Are Our Watergate Hearings? If Congress Won't Do It, Maybe There's Another Way (new edition)
Will the Piece by RFK Jr. on Election Theft Get Mainstream Traction?
Returning to Yearning: 20 Minutes of a Radio Show
For Discussion: What Do You Think, and How Do You Feel, About Humankind
Two Interesting Pieces: One on Clinton and Gore, One on Bush and Lay
Monitoring Bushite Nonsense: Would You Care to Help?
Passage from William Rivers Pitt's "Playing the Impeachment Card"
A Centrist Talks About the Democrats, the Republicans, and Why He's No Fan of Hillary Clinton
Washington Post Piece on Congressional Reaction to FBI Raid
The River and Its Channel-- Chapter 1: False Starts and True
Something I'd Like To Do With the 9/11 Issue: And I Can Use a Bit of Help
Introducing THE RIVER AND ITS CHANNEL
Another Short Thing --Plus Something Perhaps Worth Doing
The Congress Defends the Separation of Powers-- Now that They Are the Victims
Are You Bush Defenders Just Blowing Smoke, or Do You Really Not Get It?
For Your Weekend Reading: "Bach and Beyond"
"The Worst President in History?" Why the Question Mark?
Some Bits and Pieces from Elsewhere
What's Missing in the "Message to the World" Thread
Where Are Our Watergate Hearings? If Congress Won't Do It, Maybe There's Another Way
Here's a Worthy Undertaking: Perhaps NoneSoBlinders Can Help Develop It
Two Good Statements (from Elsewhere) of Very Different Kinds
Recommended for Your Weekend Viewing: The Best "Concept of Evil" Video Presentation
If You Believe in the Value of the NoneSoBlind Mission, Please Take a Look at This
"We're All in This Together": Excerpt from a Worthwhile Article