Opiate of the Masses: What’s Really Driving America’s Prescription Drug Epidemic
IN THE SPRING of 2016 a physician in Buffalo, New York, was issued a 114-count indictment accusing him of “the unlawful distribution of narcotics”... Read More
Standing with Standing Rock: My Humanism Won’t Let Me Stay Silent
during the last week of October, I made a twenty-four-hour drive to join in the resistance efforts at the Standing Rock encampments near... Read More
The Common Sense of Oklahomans
Oklahoma, “where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain,” is among the reddest of red states. It gave Donald Trump the third biggest percentage... Read More
Segregation Now and Forever: Betsy DeVos and the Looting of Public Education
“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever.” This was white supremacist Alabama Governor George Wallace’s epic battle cry in his infamous 1963 inaugural speech... Read More
Want to Survive the Next Four Years? First Step: Open Your Mouth
LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE, I spent election night filled with dread and anxiety. The country had just elected a thin-skinned, inexperienced, intellectually uncurious... Read More
Resist
We need to resist. I don’t know what exactly this resistance will look like. I’m finishing this column just three weeks after the 2016... Read More
My Longest Day
Our last combat mission was my worst experience of the war, but it taught me the most. We landed on the X, which basically... Read More
Bob Dylan, Nobel Laureate
ONE OF THE MOST SAVAGE reviews ever written was published in 1818 in response to a collection of verse by a somewhat unknown poet.... Read More
The Virtue of Doing Less: Bertrand Russell’s Idleness
“We are born once. We cannot be born a second time, and throughout eternity we shall of necessity no longer exist. You have no... Read More
Leonardo Flies Home
Leonardo Da Vinci, took his place across the tiny aisle from me, and buckled the belt of his seat. I was certain it... Read More
