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Good and Guilt, the Problem with Intention
In France, last week a multinational corporation and its executives have been found guilty and sentenced for supporting terrorist organizations. Even in the Nuremberg trials of WWII it became nearly impossible for the courts to hold corporations responsible for supporting… Continue reading
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Good and the New/Old Amoral Religiosity
This writer finds it curious that some times the most religiously aligned political actors use their political power to suspend the morality of their own religion. Our current President is criticizing and denouncing Catholicism’s leader for speaking out in support… Continue reading
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Good, Astronauts, Autocrats, Spring and Hope
Last week was a bit like this Spring. Shoots of green punched up through the dry grass of our winter of autocracy. Four Astronauts and thousands of publically supported scientists performed a near miraculous journey around the moon and out… Continue reading
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Good, Extortion, and the Art of the Misdeal
Not everything in life is a deal. When an offer is made and the only real alternative to the dealer’s offer is death and destruction of everything that matters to you, the transaction is called extortion. Extortion, for clarification, is… Continue reading
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Good and What We Want to be True
Truth is not what we want it to be, but rather what it is. In an esoteric discussion of black holes, David Kaiser a professor of physics and science at M.I.T. made an elegant summary of their discussion of science… Continue reading
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Good, Democracy and Whose War is This?
Bret Stephens is a conservative columnist for the New York Times and probably a lonely one too. He seems one of the few remaining conservatives who think, feel and strenuously process their way through the days events. I read him… Continue reading
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Good, and Deep Joy Beyond Grief’s Long Road; An American Easter Wish
It could be very easy to let Easter slide by this year without learning or feeling its meaning. In America we have a war, domestic terror for ourselves, our neighbors or both, rising prices, a crumbling democracy, and diminished international… Continue reading
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Good and America’s New Terrorists
This writer is not sure how one could describe the effects of quid pro quo death threats or threats to one’s family as anything other than terrifying. Perhaps it is because in the course of my career I lived with… Continue reading
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Good and Why Nations Aren’t Nurturance Communities: American Conflations
The American diaspora to Italy just had a hard rejection. Italy recently overturned the rules of citizenship and those people trying to close the ancestral loop of immigration to America and back just learned they may not be welcome as… Continue reading
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Good, Nationalism and Religion, and the Creative Tolerance Mandate
The word good, under the right circumstances, can be paired with either nationalism and religion, but never can good be tied to nationalism and religion linked together. The founders of this country knew from the outset that nationalism and any… Continue reading
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The Next Democracy
Given the critical times we are in this Project has proposed a very short, succinct body of language to re-introduce the idea of democracy to the 21st Century. We no longer can afford to compete for points on the scale of mutual hatred. We must find language that addresses the critical stress point of democracy in our world today. Click below, read, comment and do a pre-vote if you see something to which you can commit.
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