This post is inspired by an article in the New York Times written by Yuval Levin entitled: Why Are We Still Governed by Baby Boomers and the Remarkably Old? (June 3, 2022). As you will see it is a question… Continue reading

Having found myself  in quicksand as I work the nuances of good for this project, I find my range of considerations regarding good  has been expanded by that infinitely adaptive form of writing we call poetry .  My spouse has been… Continue reading

Awash in national grief and a strain of simple shame we search for words to describe what happened in Euvaldi, Texas and Buffalo a short week ago. The actual reality of wholly innocent children at that age along with their… Continue reading

This is a second blog inspired by Jonathan Haidt’s article WHY THE PAST 10 YEARS OF AMERICAN LIFE HAVE BEEN UNIQUELY STUPID It’s not just a phase published by Atlantic monthly April 11, 2022. Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist… Continue reading

Jonathan Haidt recently wrote an article in the Atlantic Monthly called: WHY THE PAST 10 YEARS OF AMERICAN LIFE HAVE BEEN UNIQUELY STUPID  It’s not just a phase.   I was so impressed by Jonathan Haidt’s book The Righteous Mind  Why Good  People… Continue reading

I frequently receive spam email telling me my following is not strong and of course they have just the products to correct that problem for my website. Occasionally I receive encouraging notes in my spam folder letting me know they… Continue reading

“Good” is a universally used word in our English language, but with such wild range of meanings that the word good in itself verges on being  a nonsense word.  One person starts a chess program for impoverished children and calls… Continue reading

For many people, depending on their experience with ‘authority’, authenticity and authority are  in conflict with one another.  When these two terms are in conflict inside a person, life can become challenging and stressful.  A central purpose of The Good… Continue reading

In the challenge of developing this model I have had to resist the temptation to define ‘goodness’ in terms of specific behaviors or values.  But that said, the realities of the world around us require I deal with those actions… Continue reading

These past few weeks have showcased the pathetic and the tragic. A young man with a head full of childish fantasies carries a powerful lethal gun over state lines to a demonstration/riot with the idea that he would protect the… Continue reading