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Wealth of Spirit:
“Give it away, give it away, give it away, give it away now.” –Red Hot Chili Peppers The September 11 attack produced plenty of collateral damage, but one largely unnoticed casualty is the impending harm to the nonprofit sector. The 1990s were boom years for the sector, in no small part because the value of […]
The Mind of the Married Man
It would be interesting, wouldn’t it, to watch oneself watching TV, to see the muddy mirror that the face offers the screen, the weird and slavish half-reactions flickering across it, the shadows of infant anxiety and sudden, twitchy brightenings–like a dreamer with his eyes open. I’d like to have had a camera trained on my […]
Bombs and Butter
By night, we drop bombs; by day, we drop peanut butter and jelly. Our daytime rounds, at least at the outset of the campaign, seem more symbolic than our nightly ones; the amount of food we’re delivering from the sky does not make up for the amount of food that no longer can be delivered […]
Great Minds Think Alike
“The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an […]
A Self-Sufficient Energy Policy?
Although gasoline prices are down slightly for the moment, this war against terrorism imperils America’s long-term access to cheap oil. And if the Mideast conflict refocuses us on energy self-sufficiency, that would be a constructive byproduct. For one thing, world oil production will peak during this decade. An important new book, ”Hubbert’s Peak,” by the […]
Without DeLay
Nothing divides the labor movement like a good cityelection. To watch the calculus of narrow self-interest play out in the scrambledunion endorsements of candidates in this month’s New York mayoral primary is tobe grateful that all politics isn’t literally local–that at least rudimentaryconcerns of ideology tend to loom larger in state and national contests. In […]
