Category: and so it goes

• The Myth of Progress

  I guess it’s time to make my way, at last, through Moby Dick. Melville’s description of Ahab is a description of the bankers, corporate boards,…

• It’s a Big Internet

  In terms of journalism, of expression, of voice, of fine reporting and superb writing, of a range of news, thoughts, views, perspectives, and opinions about…

• You Can Keep Your Bunkers

  Wilderness-therapy guide, survival school teacher, and naturalist educator Jeriah Bowser on post-apocalyptic bravado and the survivalist meme: I would much rather live my last days…

• Nor for Children or Other Living Things

  Newsflash: Capitalism is not good for women. Capitalism cannot measure or value non-monetized, more human and relational sources of wealth. Were it to attempt to…

• A Grubby Cabal of Privateers

  So I don’t blame people for giving up on politics. I haven’t given up yet, but I find it ever harder to explain why. When a…

• What Fresh Heresy is This

  I heard you say, you in the fine suit last night on my tv, that the world is turning faster now, and so I looked…

• You Can’t Buy a Subway

  (I)n the market system you have a choice: You can buy a Toyota or you can buy a Ford, but you can’t buy a subway…

• “I Can Tell You It’s a Con”

  An older Army officer calls me over and gestures toward the empty seat by his side. He sits ramrod straight, wrapped in his blanket, and…

• Is That All There Is?

• House of Dreams

  I grew up in a house backed by acres of woods. So much dreaming, then, amid the milkweed and the cattails. On a trip this past…