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     The only appropriate answer to “fiction or nonfiction? art or science?” is both.Fiction is a simulator. It provides emotional knowledge. How does a character’s suffering, courage, cowardice, love, loss and redemption feel? It provides moral imagination. “What...

      “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” Thucydides It’s been fifty years since I studied the history of western civilization at Stanford. My professor, E. Berkeley Tompkins, wrote Anti-Imperialism in the United States: The Great Debate,...

       Donald Trump and the Evil Queen in Snow White share two overriding traits: their psychological narcissism and their penchant for retribution. You may think it’s strange to have a fairy-tale-like character as President of the United States but it is what it is....

         No Kings Day – Convergence, Divergence Religious awakenings or revivals often coincide with and sometimes bolster authoritarian political leadership and concentrated business power. The Founders of our early Republic, especially Jefferson and Madison, argued...

  One of the advantages of being an author is the opportunity to exchange books with other authors. I recently exchanged my new book of short stories, Pieces of Time (exclusively available at Gallery Books in Mendocino for now) with Alison Gardener's The Wild Mushroom...

 This is a short post inspired by the recent meeting between Secretary of Defense Hegseth, President Trump and top military officers. There seems to be a push by this administration back toward a more muscular, male military. This is odd in the modern warfare world...

 My mother did more for me than I can even imagine. Every day I wish she were here so I could tell her something she did that made my life better. High on the list would be that she read to me every day. Some of my earliest memories are of her, book in hand, reading...

   The first physics experiment I was assigned in my college physics class was to divide white light into its spectrum, something Newton did three hundred years ago. Nearly two hundred years later Goethe published his Theory of Colors that discussed light in terms of...