Everything’s true here except the conclusion. You are anything but irrelevant. Let’s go with Gandhi on this one: “Whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it because you can’t know. You …
A reader asked me if I feel sorry for the billions of people believed to be burning in hell because they had the bad luck to be born on this Earth before the birth of Christ, and thus were unable …
Through the years, I’ve often taken a moment on March 1st to commemorate the birthday, in this case the 213th, of Frédéric Chopin. He’s loved universally for his musical works, mostly for solo piano, for their unique rhythms and nuanced, lyrical …
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What Gandhi said here is interesting. FWIW, most of us are not afraid that Trump is going to be here forever; we believe that through some mechanism, the United States will eventually restore some sort of rule by law. I’m …
Today is the 150th birthday of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. As we celebrate, we recall some of the most beautiful thoughts for which he is remembered, including, “Truth never damages a cause that is just.”
Alaska, a deeply Republican/Libertarian state, is extremely active in climate change mitigation, with aggressive policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions, principally because it has so much to lose.
A reader had a tough time with my piece of civil disobedience and climate change. He writes: Don’t confuse the very important concepts of: public meetings; protest events; political lobbying, etc. with the obnoxious term “civil disobedience.” They are not …
During a 30-minute drive I took earlier today, I had the pleasure of listening to a 1964 talk that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered at the Baccalaureate sermon at the commencement exercises for Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, which …
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