Reverberations from the past
Some choices or moments have disproportionate effects on our lives. We tend to return to something like baseline, eventually, but those effects reverberate. Some people advise living in the present,...
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Killing in the Name of (insert your cause here)
“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.” (JRR...
View ArticleA Window in the Skies
Current events leave me searching for reasons for optimism, so I turn to one of my favorite videos. It’s raw energy, the editing is spot-on, and the sentiment behind it (the love can leave open better...
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Leaving Twitter
I deleted my Twitter/X account a couple of weeks ago. After being on the site for fourteen years, I admit that it was difficult to let go. Mine wasn’t a huge account, with only a few thousand...
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Quantifying Gaza
“From the individualistic point of view it matters not at all that a million people perish, what matters is that one person dies a million times.” —Lidiya Ginzburg (1902-90) siege of Leningrad...
View ArticleKilling Each Other’s Children
“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children. The bond of...
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The Civilian Costs of the Soviet-Finnish Wars
The Civilian Costs of the Soviet-Finnish Wars The Finnish-Soviet wars will seem like an esoteric topic and a slight departure from the things I usually write about. I am doing this because of my...
View ArticleReplenishing Empathy: Gaza and Sudan
“Empathy is a finite resource. You can run out. As a normal, psychological response, you cannot give yourself of again and again and again without replenishing.” — Emmett Fitzgerald I keep thinking of...
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The Long Reach of Famine in Gaza
Childhood growth is a mirror for “the material and moral condition” of a society. – Dr. James Tanner, pediatrician and auxologist (1986:3) . In 2015, Lital Keinan-Boker and colleagues...
View ArticleBecoming Monsters
I’ll keep this brief. Shortly after the July, 2005 London bombings, U2 performed in Milan and dedicated the song Miss Sarajevo to its victims. Bono prefaced the song with these words: We’d like to...
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