Looking back on the writings compiled below, I don’t see a single theme that ties them together. I’m often interested, though, in exploring how the allegiances and identifications in our lives— sometimes acknowledged, and sometimes working behind the scenes — shape what we believe and how we act in the world.
The Angel of History: Walter Benjamin’s Vision of Despair and Hope (1998/2025)
Art and Science in Vienna 1900: Harmonious or at Loggerheads? (2013)
The Crisis of the Self in the Age of Information: Computers, Dolphins,
and Dreams (1994)
Empathy as a Method of Rational Inquiry (2025)
Hannah Arendt and the “Banality of Evil”: A Film Review (2014)
Hildegard’s Wander Theatre (2005)
History of the Barglow Family in Trinidad Colorado (2025)
Radically Wrong in Berkeley (2017)
The Quest for Meaning in Science, Religion, and Ethics (2013)
The Secret Life of Plants (2010)
Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, and the Skeptical Humanist Tradition (2017)
Social Democracy: Flickering Candle or Blazing Sun (2025)
Stem Cell Research: Still Embattled After All These Years (2017)
Through a Glass Darkly: How Vision Deceives (2020
WiFi Woes: The Rollout of 5G Re-awakens Wireless Fear (2022)
Articles not Listed on the home page:
Alzheimer’s Disease — How Long Before We Find a Cure? (2010)
Buddhists Armed with Apples: Cultural Contradictions of the New Networking Technologies (2000)
Cell Phones: Hazardous to Your Health? (2010)
The Martin Luther King Monument in Washington: Meaning and Message (2011)
Medicine at the Millennium: Still Caught between Descartes and Spinoza (March/April 2002)
The Opioid Epidemic Misunderstood (2019)
Principles of Self Psychology in the Fiction of Henry James (2025)
