Is Cynical Mass Illegal Immigration Being Deployed Against Our National US Culture? These days, I dread, under certain circumstances, getting into New York City taxis. Cultures around the world vary of course. (That should not be a taboo sentence.) And there are some cultures in this world in which women have no voice at all, […]
Is Naomi Klein “Othering” Me Due to Family Ties’ Multi-Millions in Vaccine Money?
Klein’s Husband’s Multi-Billion-Dollar ‘PharmaCare’ Partnership; Her Father-in-Law’s Org’s $25 Million Grant from Bill Gates The writer, Naomi Klein, wrote a whole book, Doppelgänger: A Trip Into the Mirror World, weirdly, I gather, centering on me. I have intentionally not read it yet, and I had hoped not to have to do so. But I may have […]
Neo-Marxism and the End of Language
How Globalist Oligarchs Are Targeting Western Meaning Language is changing in America; indeed, probably throughout the West. And the changes are not good. The changes I see being introduced into English speech in America, are designed to kill off the practices and assumptions of individual freedom and responsive representation that have also been embedded for generations in […]
Grief Enough for All: Fragments from Time in Israel and Palestine
Predictably, the world has flown apart after October 7th, as tribalism in both directions is driven by escalating emotions. When I post neutral accounts of horrific events on both “sides” of the divide, someone always interprets what I have done as partisanship on my part — as if I am adhering to one or the […]
The Geneva Bible Exodus 4 – God Helps Moses Show Miracles, and Speak for Him
The Lord is seeking Moses’ help in leading the Children of Israel out of slavery in Egypt, and Moses demurs; he is “heavy of speech”. God will have none of it though and insists that he speak on God’s behalf, and be a mouthpiece for him. More extraordinary later mistranslations.
Please Calm Down: The Importance of Staying Centered in a Global Crisis
Israel/Palestine is one subject that is almost impossible to address conscientiously and coherently. That is especially true at a time such as this, when our feeds and news outlets are flooded with images of atrocities, amplified at a scale that is only possible in a digital era. We also have friends and colleagues and loved ones […]
Geneva Bible Reading Exodus 3, Multiple Cases of G-d’s Intimacy with Humans
This is the most mistranslated chapter yet in our journey — G-d’s relationship to humans, down to how His NAME is mistranslated, is dramatically watered down — a bit in the Geneva Bible but hugely in the Revised Standard Version. Multiple cases of G-d’s intimacy with humans are altered to lead Him to seem more […]
The Geneva Bible Readings Resume! Exodus Reading With Dr. Naomi Wolf
Dr. Naomi Wolf resumes her reading and discussion of The Geneva Bible, Exodus.
Introduction to “Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith and Resistance in a New Dark Age”
Dearest Readers, My editors at Chelsea Green Publishing have graciously offered readers of this Substack an excerpt from my forthcoming book, Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith and Resistance in a New Dark Age — the Introduction. Facing the Beast is about the last three years, and about my personal journey — a journey in which many people, […]
Genocidal Ancestral Memory
Did Leaders with “Genocidal Memory” in their Ancestors’ Past, Help to Save Us? I promised God, as you recall, after I got a second chance to be alive, that I would write the things I most feared to write. This essay is in that category. We are in a time — a manufactured […]
“Happy Indictment Day!”
In a Deep Blue State, Recoiling from the Celebrations I am in a deep blue small town in a deep blue state, here on the West Coast. The natives are jubilant today. “Happy Indictment Day!” shouted the neighbor of my host, as my host and I sat out on a balcony. The neighbor was emerging […]
Soup: Food as Metaphor, How We Keep One Another Alive
I was supine on the couch, as I have been for a couple of weeks now, recovering from my very near brush with the Void. I’ve given myself, with my doctor’s blessing, permission to be in a state of “rest” — that retro condition — without guilt, for a while at least; which seems at […]
Energies, Cont. What Good and Evil Flow Around Us?
I promised God, as you recall, in the hospital where I lay nearly dying, that, if I was allowed to live, I would write the things which I most feared to write. So here we are: starting. I sought my entire career to secure a reputation as a serious, academically-trained intellectual in the post-Enlightenment tradition. […]