Blog Posts

Shooting Down

images sensationalize, horrify, titillate — rarely to the spur action. We may “share” them on FB. At Christmas we may give a few bucks to “save the children.” But instead of leading to social change they pacify. Sontag was right in “regarding the pain of others” that we quickly become inured to horror — from the starving wraiths of Buchenwald to the daily genocide in Gaza.

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Idolatry

“The whole concept of alienation found its first expression in Western thought in the Old Testament concept of idolatry. The essence of what the prophets

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Ending public schools

The US public schools are being destroyed. This has been going on since 1954 Brown v. BoE and the all white academies that were part

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