Scientific animism? Or is it Scientific animism?  This sounds like an oxymoronic contradiction. Animism, the belief that natural things –...

Should we take meritocracy as a given? Or is there another, better way to organize society? One that would avoid...

With the 2020 presidential election, we, the people, succeeded in enacting our political will. This article is about the nitty-gritty...

The Rise of Republican Fascism and the Ethics of Resistance: A Review of Barack Obama, A Promised Land (New York: Random...

What would it be like if every time that you encountered a stranger, experienced an abrupt change, or walked into...

I am fortunate to have a wide circle of progressive intellectual friends, but I am worried about them. There is...

In these days of isolation, worry, illnesses, and death, a lot of people are hopeful that the COVID-19 pandemic will...

2019 marked a turning point in the world fight against climate change with a wave of protests from the younger...

“It was only with the spread of Judeo-Christian monotheism that most traces of the ancient Palaeolithic world view disappeared in...

Book Review and Interview with Author Jonathan Greenberg What if, after the political horrors and social cruelties of his first...

Have human beings already doomed our species?  How far does global warming have to rise for us to go extinct?...

BOOK REVIEWS: The Invention of Nature:  Alexander Von Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf, Knopf: New York, 2015, 496 pages;  The Hidden Life of...