This week, I’ve been thinking about figuring out how to act in the world when we genuinely don’t understand what’s happening in the world. Last Sunday night, I was reading an article about one particular aspect of the instabilities in the global economy caused by the authoritarian regime in the United States. As I was …
Month: April 2025
I’ve been thinking, this week, about how we talk about the people who rule us. I think often we have trouble recognizing the fact that most of the people with power in our society — the political leaders, the business magnates, and so on — are just ordinary people. Sure, once in awhile one comes …
This week, I’ve been thinking about a couple of things I observed at a recent community meeting. So…the other week I went to a community meeting. I don’t want to say too much about who called it or what it was about or anything like that. I will say it was put together by an …