My recent blog post was published at Common Dreams, so here it is:
Read MoreAlmost a week after the Superbowl, I learned that there had been a shooting at the victory parade for the Kansas City Chiefs. What struck me about the story, however, wasn’t that it happened; what struck me was that it took me three days to learn about it.
Read MoreI was at the doctor’s office the other day and was struck by a paradox of modern medicine: on the one hand, we have truly miraculous cures that testify to the collective genius of the human species, while on the other hand, this genius is often wielded by people who exhibit all of the shortcomings of our species, like callousness and ignorance. It was a good lesson in the promises and perils of technology.
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