Wasn’t it you who told me that when the United States entered World War I, it was practically over?  A character in a book I started reading, ‘We Shall Not Sleep’ by Anne Perry, makes

Good explanation of Trump-  Carnoy argued that “large blocs of the U.S. population have not been swept up in the economic growth of the past 40 years, which has largely enriched the top 1 percent

Columbian article raises lots of questions of the sort that are discussed in civics class or Social Studies. I have read that Portland had a strong KKK presence at one time. ‘The Pacific Northwest has

Reading The Limits of Power, Andrew J Bacevich, a book about America”s tendency to assume that it is able to tell the rest of the world how to be and how to run their governments. 

Quote from NYT article about nurses in Mississippi- Successive waves of illness and death have left them exhausted and numb; nearly one in five have left the profession over the past two years. And they

Tuesday, October 01, 2013 I get the New York Times emails with news updates but I have been bypassing the ones about the Republican antics. I consider those people dangerous anarchists and I hope the

“Possibilities for bringing justice and mercy, genuine freedom and prosperity, to the whole world. Empires always carry that possibility. But, alas, empires always also, for the same reason, face the temptation to use their power

Dick Keyes, The Lordship of Christ.  It made me think of a comment about Paul’s preaching concept – ‘you preach the Bible without all the crap.’  This is the spiritual/secular dualism that Keyes rejects. He

“An eschatological aura allows a nation to forgive itself for its violence. The new nation managed to overlook its genocidal relationship with the Native Americans, as well as to boast of liberty while allowing slavery.

But by the 1990s, greater numbers of the Republican Party’s grass-roots activists blamed declining standards of living not on the free market individualism they believed in almost religiously, but on job-taking immigrants and the shadowy