Messages to a Liberal Community

Starting in 2013, I published regularly on the liberal website Daily Kos, at a rate of about one hundred essays a year. Here is a selection of those essays of more potential durable interest.

Here also is a three-part series– titled What Shapes Our World.)

• Why Do I Find It So Disturbing?
• Marijuana and Psychedelics Rise, Nicotine and Alcohol Fade — What Does That Say About America?
• Why Would Even These Corrupt Supremes WANT to Help Trump?
• There’s a Lot of Liberal Irresponsibility Out There About AI
• Evolution: A Most Elegant and Illuminating Idea
• How the Rise of Civilization Brought the Reign of Power
• Good Battling Evil
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• The Following Pieces Are Awaiting Placement in the Human/AI Dialogue Series
• Weltanschauung
• The Wise Use of Substances that Alter Experience
• An AI “Disaster” That Could Be a Birth of Freedom
• Should Lincoln Have Let the Confederacy Go?
• Owning the Libs
• Why Some Nations Refuse to Apologize — and What It Reveals About the National Psyche
• Democracy vs. Fascism: Where is Trump’s America Heading?
• Why My AI Isn’t Someone I’d Call “Kid”
• What Japan Was Working On In It’s Post-War Samurai Films
• Why Do We Talk as if “Dream Come True” Is Necessarily Positive?