My motivation for launching this website was to help with marketing and attracting clients for my freelance writing and editing work. From that narrow perspective, I would have to say the site has not delivered success to this point. Such a view, however, suffers from a certain myopia—the same sort of wrong view by which …
On the video podcast I co-host, When Humanists Attack!!, I recently had the pleasure of interviewing one of the greatest performance artists working today, Bill Talen, AKA Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping. Billy’s message has been resounding in my head ever since—it was echoing when I learned about the latest pronouncement from …
To commemorate the 75th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (as well as the Russian invasion of Manchuria that started in between), I produced a special documentary episode of my weekly radio program, “Crazy Words, Crazy Tune,” that aired from noon to 2pm on August 7, 2020. Blending popular recordings from 1945 …
Since 2020 began I’ve been thinking about some of the year’s significant anniversaries, especially it being the 75th anniversary of everything that happened in 1945. I was expecting that we’d have heard a lot about 1945 by this point in the year, with world leaders gathering and doing whatever they do at commemorations: pompous speeches, …
On the International Day of Peace, The Progressive magazine’s website published my review of Randy Forsberg’s fascinating book, Toward a Theory of Peace: The Role of Moral Beliefs. I had suggested a clever title for the article—”From the Unthinkable to the Inconceivable”—but I suppose clever titles aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. (If anyone …
The Progressive published my dispatch from the peace movement meetings held in New York May 11-12, 2018 and the state of nuclear disarmament in 2018. You can see a video taken at the “Two Minutes to Midnight” conference on May 12, featuring talks by Noam Chomsky, Medea Benjamin, Zia Mian, and Daniel Ellsberg.