Phronesisaical

None of the authors at this blog are posting any more. We might be back someday, but I don't know when that will be. Comments are clos...

This is as good a description of the situation in the Middle East and what America can do about it as I've seen.  Long read on what w...

Following up on that comment of President Obama's on the Crusades: the first victims of the first crusade were Jews. And then they took...

Why Vladimir Putin should be invited to the Auschwitz memorial ceremony. Russia needs to confront all parts of its past. France is proposi...

What is a European? The growing pains of the European Union. What they are trying to do is much more difficult than the United States' u...

The Sony hack and later shutdown of the North Korean internet made me think of the last lines of “Dover Beach,” by Matthew Arnold. Tha...

This article pretty well represents my feelings about Greenpeace's dumb stunt at Nacza, Peru. They need to pay for the damage they'v...

I don't have much to say about the Senate Torture Report. Maybe later. I need to do some assimilating. Here's as much as I can write...

Vladimir Putin has really ticked off Angela Merkel.  Joschka Fischer comes from a left-wing background, and he sees Merkel's stance as a...

Despite the ideology of the past few decades that says we're all individuals who owe each other nothing, humans have evolved a cooperati...

So we have been told again that the death of a black man caused by a police officer is not worth considering - there is a video of Eric Garn...

“I saw a movie this week that I know you’d love! It’s called ‘The Theory of Everything.’” I smile and ask what my friend liked about it. He...

We have done some good things for ourselves as humans. After a while, it's easy to take those good things for granted and even think we ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates's honesty and writing moved me . It's hard to change one's mind in this way, harder to say it. On the other s...

'I'm Going to Live': American Ashoka Mukpo on What It's Like to Have Ebola Photos of rural Belarus. Putin's tactical...

I contemplate Vladimir Putin's speech to the Valdai Discussion Club , which is being much discussed by others. The more I think about it...