power

  • Good, Power, Minds and Hearts

    The one good lesson that can be learned from this era is there is no hammer big enough or power sufficient to overcome the power of good minds and powerful hearts.  Nations will concede a lot but they ultimately won’t… Continue reading

  • 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

  • Good, Peace, Private Interest, Public Loss and Ignorance

    In reading the history leading up to the second World War it seemed the world had learned an important lesson in trying to negotiate a peace through the concession of other people’s land and culture to the aggressor.  If you… Continue reading

  • Good, and the Art Cultivating Enemies and Burning Friends

    This writer is not sure of the value of starting a powerful club who won’t have you as a member. And yet that is the apparently strategy of our current leader who took the second most powerful nation in the… Continue reading