San Bernadino and Purpose – Writing for Culture

I hate even writing about the San Bernadino shootings, but it’s impossible to ignore. First, It’s going to be overcovered. Second, the political Right is going to turn it into Pearl Harbor and it will be used to justify every possible invasion of our civil...

We’ll always have Paris…

I had something else on my mind this week, but terrorism rears its ugly head and I feel compelled to recount a conversation I had not two weeks ago. I was in Boston, Massachusetts, for work and found myself in a nice hotel restaurant talking with a rather educated...

On cowardice, courage, and self-reliance

I was (yet again) dragging my stuff through the airport – and the whole TSA line-management exercise. I couldn’t help but be a bit disenchanted. I don’t particularly hate the TSA…okay, actually, that’s not true. I kinda do because of...