There is a grim parallel between Hampshire College professor emeritus Michael Klare’s article in The Nation magazine about our polarized...
Losing Ed to Parkinson’s Disease a year ago April remains a personal loss to me. And to so many other people, students and community who shared his...
He called it “a continuation of the greatest Witch Hunt in American history … purely political, and an affront to the almost 75 million voters” who...
There is always more than one way to look at things … unless you are locked into a belief about the matter under discussion that is unshakeable...
I am fond of quoting Ursula Le Guin. In her last book, “No Time to Spare,” she clarifies the difference between belief and acceptance.Asked if she...
The city of Cambridge, Mass. is the first U.S. city to mandate climate warnings on gas pumps. Wouldn’t it be great if Greenfield could act quickly...
In my Oct. 6 My Turn essay I discussed the “three laws of social epidemics” caused by arriving at a variety of tipping points.While the American...
A tipping point is that magical (or malevolent) moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and then spreads like...
Two days after Christmas, I was diagnosed with the dreaded Trump Derangement Syndrome in a letter to this paper. The writer noted, “Us Trump...
William Shakespeare called our world a stage because just as actors make their entry and exits onto a stage, so we all enter into this world, move...
It is a time of deep reflection. My iPhone calendar constantly reminds me that it is time to go to the Y or that I have a doctor’s appointment...
Isms. Capitalism and socialism.As different as these isms are, they both share two things in common: the people (the masses) and those “at the top....