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On the right side of history is the wrong place to be.
I’ve heard this statement a more than a couple times in the last few years. “We want to be on the right side of history.” It usually has to do with gay marriage laws, such as this recent statement by...
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City mice, country mice, and suburban mousetraps.
Last week I was talking with a friend who had moved “to the country” just a few years ago, having lived previously in one of the small cities nestled in the Western Pennsylvania hills. He and his...
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Involuntary associations, democracy, and Twitter?
Twitter conversation map from http://kittenthebad.wordpress.com/ Voluntary associations, said Robert Putnam in his 2000 book Bowling Alone, have been in decline. People are not engaged in the civic...
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Work versus the weekend
Work-rest balance probably doesn’t look quite like this… My father, always the social non-conformer, remarked today that this week, he was actually looking forward to the weekend. And it brought back...
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Can you appropriate culture without exploitation?
Greg asked my thoughts on Sanaa Hamid’s photo collection titled “Cultural Appropriation: A conversation“, and particularly, ‘is there any space for cultural appropriation that’s not exploitative?’ My...
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Views on the Catholic Church and homosexuality
Today in a seminar with Dr. Adriaan van Klinken (Leeds) on religion, sexuality, and nationalism in Zambia, the position of the Catholic Church on homosexuality came up. Van Klinken noted that compared...
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Ukraine, stability, and the West
Photo: Protesters face off with special police forces in Kiev, December 2013. By Дмитрий Ларин, facebook.com/dmytrolarin The mass protests in Kiev have made me think anew about the precariousness of...
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“I’m done with belief”: Caitlin Moran and the rational society
“At the end of 2013, I’m done with belief.” The words caught my eye as one might expect. I thought, briefly, that perhaps the author was talking about religious belief, or the concept of belief in the...
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Politics and emotional correctness
Sally Kohn was a commentator for Fox News. She’s also a lesbian and progressive when it comes to politics, which put her largely at odds with many of the people she interacted with on the TV channel....
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The vanity of giving
There’s a beer company in Minnesota that donates 100% of their profits to end hunger. They also run a reverse food truck that collects food and monetary donations instead of selling food. Awesome,...
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