Recent Blog Entries:
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Connection Through The Generations
McCain Signals Breaking with the Ways of Bush: New York Times Editorial
On Why People Kill People Over Belief Systems
Inherent Contempt for Rove: An Email from Congressman Wexler
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Symbolism and the Making of Connections (from N.O. Brown's LOVE'S BODY)
*American* as a Wedge Issue: Harold Myserson on the GOP Election Message
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Wholeness as Appealing, Wholeness as Empowering
Conyers Mounts Opposition to Iran Attack: Letter Published on Truthout
McCain embraces Bush's radical views of executive power: Glenn Greenwald Piece
Two Women --Jean Houston and Barbara Ehrenreich-- Discuss Hillary Clinton
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Human Propensity to Hear the Pattern of Rhythm
Too Much Focus on One Individual?
Is A 'Unity Ticket' A Good Idea? A Debate on The New Republic Website
Honoring the Emotions that Give Life to Liberal Principles: Nick Bromsell in The American Scholar
Arianna Huffington on How Far McCain has Fallen
Hard Fouls: Brief True Tale of a Basketball Game
I, Too, Have Been Damaged by the Evil Bushite Forces
The Abominable Debate and What It Showed about the Media: Frank Rich in the NYTimes
You Can Hear Me on the Radio This Evening
Two Paths Converge on the Way to the Sacred: My Wife, April, on Two Big Life Changes
Lullaby of Bagdad: Paul Starr in American Prospect on the Mess in Iraq
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: How People Are Influenced by Those Around Them
Who Will Tell the People?: Tom Friedman on the Decrepit State of the Nation
What Happened to Hillary at the Level of the Spirit
"Spiritual Transformation" by Other Names: An Exchange I Had on Opednews
The Media Make Mischief to Weaken the Democrats: Eskow Piece on Huffington Post
Some Information, and Some Thoughts, about Electability
For Your Amusement: An Exchange on Opednews.com About Obama's Hidden Muslim Agenda
Ariana Huffington vs. Howard Kurtz on *Self-Loathing Liberal Media*
Making the Race One about Spiritual Transformation
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: "Magical" Thinking and the Perception of Patterns
"Long National Nightmare" is What Obama Should Be Talking About
Our Long National Nightmare: Thoughts of Now and of 1974
Obama Gets Reasonable Advice from --of All People!-- Karl Rove
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Understanding Our Place in the Larger Order
Thoughts/Questions About Obama's Ability to Defend Himself
Two Catastrophic Acts of Selfishness: One Couple's Enormous Role in America's Tragedy
Are You Aware of the NSB Newsletter?
The Irresponsible Media: Paul Waldman in the American Prospect
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Are We Willing to Align Ourselves with the Truth?
Here's How Obama Should Deal with the *Debate* Issue
Revisiting the Muddle Through Scenario
Reining in Presidential Secrecy: NYTimes Editorial on How Congress Might Be about to Take Action
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Contagious Interactions Among People
*You Can End It Here* This Should Be Obama's Mantra in Indiana
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Here It Is! The Open Forum on Wholeness
The Low Road to Victory: NYTimes Editorial on the Hillary Clinton Campaign
Hillary and Iran: Olbermann Missed the Point
The Democrats Must Not Reward Hillary
Obama Refuses to Schedule N.C. Debate: I Approve
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: My Own Experience of Extraordinary Knowing
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Denial of our Wider and Deeper Knowing
Two on the Effort to Tie Obama to Hamas: A McCain Fundraising Letter and a Gary Hart Article
What Will Happen Legally with the Bushites and Their Torture? A Piece by Spencer Ackerman
Majority of Historians Rate the Bush Presidency the Worst Ever
The Latest in Global Warming Denialism: Jonathan Chait in The New Republic
Dear Barack: Non Carborundum Illegitimatum
Two Speeches on Race: Garry Wills Compares Speeches by Obama and Lincoln
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Eros and Unification (from N. O. Brown's LOVE'S BODY)
Just a Reminder: The Open Forum on Wholeness is Coming Soon
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Goleman on the Human Connection
John Yoo: Spearhead or Scapegoat? Glenn Greenwald Article
Will the Constitution Be Altered to Eliminate Key Liberties?
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Dance of Polarization
Some of My Thoughts About How Obama Might Utilize the Recent "Bitterness" Flap
A Bitter Pill To Swallow: Dylan Lowe (on Huffington Post) on the Obama Flap
I Am Speaking Tomorrow in Santa Fe: Anyone May Attend
Obama's Gaffe: Is There an Opportunity Here for Another Important Speech
Communing with Nature Less and Less: Article from World Science
Hillary's Mistake: It Turns Out that Nice Guys Do Better
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: An Invitation to the NSB Community to Go Deep
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Rhythm and the Channeling of Tourettes (Oliver Sacks)
When the Upholders of Law Are Declared Criminal: A Piece by Scott Horton From Harper's Magazine
The Democrats and Obama and The Politics of Religion: E.J. Dionne in the New Republic
Barr None: Bob Barr May Run as Libertarian, Says Piece in the Atlantic
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Oneness and the Manyness of Life As It Has Evolved on Earth
Interesting Poll Results: Obama the Candidate Most Americans Think Holds AmericanValues
Transformational Leadership: Crisis Not Only Makes It Vitally Necessary, It Also Makes It Possible
Progress and Entropy: Another Passage from the Concluding Chapter of DEBATING THE GOOD SOCIETY
The Intelligence Cover-Up: NYTimes Editorial
Obama's Remarkable Breakthrough on Economics: Robert Kuttner Asks Why Krugman Can't See It
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Maybe It Would Blow Our Minds, Maybe It Would Transform Us
The Mental Health of Democrats and Republicans: Trying to Interpret a Juicy Fact from Harper's Index
Just Who Is Hillary Clinton? Peggy Noonan Writes about "Getting" Her
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Parental Patterns Perpetuated
Lakoff Describes What Obama's Speech Does: A Piece Worth Reading
The Dilbert Strategy: Paul Krugman on the Phony Bushite Financial "Reform" Proposals
Expect Delays: An Announcement Concerning the Coming Week
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Two Kinds of Error Regarding Our Perception of Patterns
Sen. Chuck Hagel on Iraq and the "Arrogance and Incompetence" of the Bushites
Extemporaneous Writing Now Unfolding
Leadership and Connecting With People: Another Passage from Obama's 1995 Book
Five years after the invasion, the totality of our failure is clear (from The Independent, U.K.)
When a Nation Has Difficulty Facing Its Past: Japan Still Struggles
There's Running, and Then There's Running Ugly
The Long Defeat: David Brooks on Hillary's Continuing
Two Capsule Pieces on the State of our Financial System by Dean Baker
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Case of the Balinese Cockfight
Buried in the Numbers on Intrade
Beyond the Standards of Apedom (An Excerpt from DEBATING THE GOOD SOCIETY)
Interesting Public Opinion Poll Data From NBC/WSJ
John Dean Wonders: Was Obama's Speech Too Intelligent to be Politically Successful?
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: How Couples Create Important Wholes
What I Intuit the Reverend Wright Business Is Fundamentally About
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Expertise and the Mastery of Patterns
Here's Who I Think Obama Should Pick as a Running Mate
Fascinating New Idea About the Democratic Race
Poll Results on Obama's Speech on Race (from CBS)
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Market as a Fragmenting Force
Greenwald on the Media's Distorted Coverage of John McCain
When Broken People Reject the Message of Wholeness
We Need a President, Not Just a Commander-in-Chief: Brewer and Lakoff on Common Dreams
Partying Like It’s 1929: Paul Krugman on the Perils of Our Unregulated Financial System
The T-Shirt of President George W. Bush
In Unusual Times, Unusual Outcomes Become Possible
"That is Leadership": Joseph Nye on Obama's Speech
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Collective Intelligence (Passage from Thomas's LIVES OF A CELL)
The "Grist for the Mill" Strategy
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: A Story from Katrin
Reactions to the Obama Speech (Compiled by Huffington Post)
Rigged Trials at Gitmo: Ross Tuttle Piece from THE NATION
Obama's Great Speech on Race This Morning
Admiral Fallon, the Danger of War Against Iran, and the Presidential Campaign
Live Radio Show Tuesday Morning: My Topic Will Relate to Wholeness
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Earliest Experience of Nurture as Template for Life
Assorted Election-Related Thoughts
The Rise of American Incompetence: Daniel Gross on Slate.com
When Push Comes (An Excerpt from DEBATING THE GOOD SOCIETY)
More Bellicose Than Bush? Paul Waldman on McCain in The American Prospect
House Rejects Telecom Immunity: Greenwald in Praise of a Possible "Sea Change" Among the Democrats
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Human Wholeness-- an Origin or a Destination?
How to Deal With the Darkness: The Key Question Facing Obama
Spangler and Me on "Winning at All Costs"
Dean Baker on 1) Hypocrisy on the Sanctity of Contracts and 2) Nonsense on the Need for Immigrants
What Hillary Has Now Revealed About Herself
Schmookler is Available for Conversation
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: An Unreasonable Kind of Rationality
If I'm Not Ready, Why Does She Want Me as Her Veep?: Obama Makes a Deft Move
David Spangler Relates His Dreams about Barack and Hillary
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Three Metaphors for the Whole (Taoist, Sufi, and Christian)
Hope and the Latent Power of the People: Another Passage from Obama's 1995 Book
Why the War on Obama: Robert Parry on Consortium News
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Our Pathways Into Deep Meaning
Here's How Obama Should Fight Back
I Can Be Heard on the Internet This Evening
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: A Story of Insight and Healing
Call Congressman Reyes to Stop Him from Caving on Telecom Immunity
BULLETIN! The Thursday Event in Santa Fe is Postponed on Account of Snow
What I'd Ask Obama, and What I Hope He'd Answer
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Patterns of Flocks in Flight
If You Could Ask Obama One Question
Winter of the Patriarchs: Harold Myerson on Castro and Nader
Schmookler is Available for Conversation
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Connection Between Truth and Wholeness
If I Were Obama, What I'd Be Tempted to Say to Hillary
Here's a Job for the Obama Campaign
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Metaphor and the "Very Secret of the Universe"
Obama Shows How to Parry Right-Wing Slime Attacks: Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com
Obama's "Inspiration" vs. Clinton's "Solutions"
What the Hell Are Democrats So Afraid of? Article by Glenn Hurowitz from Alternet
Letter to a Baby Boomer (Written by John Updike in 1996)
McCain as the Anti-Obama: Darrell Delamaide Essay in MarketWatch
Where the "Audacity of Hope" Comes From
The Importance of Narrative in a Presidential Campaign: Paul Waldman in The American Prospect
Schmookler is Available for Conversation
Is the United States Coming Apart as a Society? Some Findings Reported by Robert Putnam
This Phony McCain Bruhaha: An Unworthy Story
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Moral Instinct (Essay by Pinker)
Gambling on Obama is Our Safest Bet
McCain Panders to the Right, the Media Don't See: Ariana Huffington Article
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: This is Your Brain on Music
The Dems Should Confront McCain on National Security, Not Mirror Him: A Greenwald Article
Padilla Sues Yoo: Bazelon Argues that the Case Has Plausibility
The Clemens Hearing as National Symbol: Quite Outstanding Essay by Stephen Metcalf on Slate.com
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: "Everybody's Got Their Issues" (Patterns in Individuals and Families)
Congress Has Stood Up for Itself, at Least this Much
Schmookler is Available for Conversation
Manhood and the Fate of the Earth
What Does It Profit a Man: McCain, Former POW, Votes for Torture
Obama and Progressive Change: Article by Dave Lindorff on Common Dreams
Baker Bashes Times for Skewed Comments on Bush and the Economy
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Evil and Wholeness-- Resolving an Apparent Contradiction
This is What I Like To See: An Example of Clinton and Obama Working Together
America Doesn't Need More Cheaters for Leaders
Help Senator Leahy on FISA in the Next 24 Hours
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Metaphor and Reality
A Couple Things from Me: I Had a Dream Last Night, and Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth
Liberals Should Make Common Cause with Evangelicals: A NYTimes Column by Nicholas Kristof
A New Geologic Age—Started by Us: Article from World Science
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Yes, the Waters are Deep
How I'd Like Obama and Clinton to Campaign from Here
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Reality of Relationships
More Post-Super-Tuesday Thoughts: A Puzzlement and a Defect in the Media Coverage
Mass Eviction from the Ownership Society: A Passage from Naomi Klein
Problems of "Masculinity" in the Contemporary World
Thoughts About Obama and the Finding of Fault for the Present Darkness
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Caring About Future Generations
The Choice: Christopher Hayes in THE NATION on Obama vs. Clinton
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: An Interesting Instance of Contagion
Obama Inspires the Young (Article by my Wife, April Moore)
How the World Sees the U.S. Presidential Race: AP Report
The Latest Bush Crime, Committed Just Now in Broad Daylight (Dave Lindorff Essay)
Why I’m For Obama! Only He Can Shift the Correlation of Forces
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: A Pattern in My Life (Part II)
Greenwald's Version of "The Lament of a True Patriot"
Justice Blinds Itself to the Need to Be Blind: W. Virginia Judge Fraternizes with Party to a Suit
Government Versus Market: False Contrasts at the NYT (A Brief Dean Baker Piece)
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: A Pattern in My Life (Part I)
The Democrats' Praise-Reagan Game: Excellent Piece by Robert Parry
Lakoff on a Difference Between Hillary and Obama
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Cutting Ourselves Off from the Whole Whole is Forfeiting Our Potential Power
More Bush Lying, Cheating and Usurpation: A New York Times Editorial (but that title is mine)
The G.O.P. Going for McCain Makes Hillary a Dangerous Choice for the Dems (piece from elsewhere)
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Wholeness of Nature
Scathing Critique of Bush from Rep. Wexler on the Eve of Bush's Final State of the Union Message
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: "The Robinson Crusoe Fallacy"
A Question for This Group: How Frequent Would You Want the SEEING THINGS WHOLE Postings?
Announcing a Small Change in NSB's Front Page
The FISA Follies, Redux: NYTimes Editorial
Dems Cave to Bush on Stimulus Package: WHY? (Two Thoughts From Me)
"So Did Jesse Jackson": Clinton's Tactics Backfire in South Carolina
Questions for the Clintons: Questions for the Clintons: by Bob Herbert in the New York Times
My Little Phony: On Romney's "Reassuring" Way of Pandering (Jonathan Chait in the New Republic)
The Media's Abominable Political Coverage: Another Effective Slam by Glenn Greenwald
How Americans Found Glowing Meaning in the Nightmare of the Civil War: An Excerpt from a New Book
Kucinich to Introduce Articles of Impeachment Against Bush
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Zeitgeist as Evidence of Subtle Patterns and Connections
Wondering if My Reaction to the Clintons' Recent Behavior is Representative
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Dimensions of Wholeness (A Passage from the Parable of the Tribes)
Refight the Nineties? A Piece by Rep. Barney Frank on Huffington Post
Donations Instead of Gifts: A Report from My Wife, April
Don't Cry for Me America: Paul Krugman on the Nature of our Current Economic Crisis
The Moral Instinct: Steven Pinker Essay from the New York Times
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Order vs. Chaos in the Flow of Events
Chris Matthews and Women: An Issue Raised by Media Matters, A Letter to MSNBC by Me
Low Approval of Bush: The Latest ABC-News Poll
SEEING THE WHOLE: Science as the Discovery of Patterns and Connections
Greenwald on the Right's Defective Understanding of Law (with an E.g. in the Kucinich Case)
Twenty-five U.S. Military Officers Challenge Official Account of 9/11
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: No Man Is an Island
The Unselling of Brand-Name Drugs: An Article Showing a Good Use of Government
Jonah Goldberg's Bizarro History: A Review Article by David Neiwart in the American Prospect
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Patterns of Thought
Fascist Wolves and Democratic Sheep: From an Article by Ray McGovern
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Connection Through Time
What is Spiritually Wrong With America? Weak and Strong Paths to "Victory"
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Scenes of Coming Attractions
George McGovern Calls for Impeachment
Iowa's Message to Investors: An Interpretation from the Wall Street Journal
9/11 Commission: Our investigation was "obstructed": Piece by Greenwald
SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Introducing a New Project
Maybe Mukasey Isn't Gonzalez II: Criminal Probe Opened Over CIA Tapes (Huffington News Item)
Mitt Romney's Pursuit of Tyrannical Power: Another Strong Piece from Greenwald
Mr. President: A Question I Imagine Bush Being Asked at a News Conference
The Bushite Betrayal of America: A Most Hard-Hitting, Year-End Editorial from the New York Times
A Fighter: What the Dems Most Need in a Presidential Candidate
Progressives to Arms! Krugman Says Forget about Bush--and the Middle Ground
The Torture Tape Fingering Bush as a War Criminal: Andrew Sullivan in the London Times
What is This "Cowardly Act" Bit About?
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda: Excellent Article on Regrets (from the AARP Magazine)
Conservatism as the Ideology of Freedom? David Michael Green Doesn't Think So!
What is Spiritually Wrong With America: Patterns of Weakness
Authoritarian Temptation: Greenwald on the Dangers of a Guiliani Presidency
The President-Tyrant: Article by Scott Horton from Harper's Magazine
The Change in Christmas Movies: A Case Study of the Cultural Shift from Idealism to Cynicism
Santa Claus Comes to Wall Street: Dean Baker on the Corruptions of Today's Corporate Capitalism
Is Change to be Had from Less Partisanship or from Doing Battle? Paul Krugman on Obama vs. Edwards
Media Hostility toward Anti-Establishment Candidates: Greenwald Piece at Salon.com
Democrats Who Refuse to Lead: John Aravosis' Take on Why the Dems Cave
Paul Krugman on the Ideological Roots of the Subprime Credit Crisis
Atheism's Wrong Turn: Essay by Damon Linker in The New Republic
"Global Warming Consensus Debunked," Claims NSB Reader and a Report on Senator Inhofe's Website
Debunking a Second Bogus Argument of the Climate "Skeptics"
Torture Tapes are the Watergate of Our Times: Brent Budowsky
It’s Edwards the Fighter in the Iowa Homestretch: New York Times News Piece
What is Spiritually Wrong With America: The Loss of the Ideal, the Failure of the Heroic
What Is Spiritually Wrong With America: Shrinking From the Necessary Battle
Danger and Uncertainty: What Prudence and Responsibility Require
Reid Accedes to Pressure-- Half Way: Both Bills to Be Brought to the Floor
The Political Views of Academic Faculty Members: Interesting Research Reported by Harvard Magazine
Three Congressmen Make the Case for Impeachment Hearings Regarding Cheney
What's Harry Reid Up To? A Piece by Glenn Greenwald that Raises but Doesn't Answer That Question
Call to Action from the ACLU: Stop the Senate from Approving a Bad FISA Bill
Al Gore's Outstanding Speech upon Accepting the Nobel Prize
Power and Corruption: Just What Is Their Relationship?
Democratic Complicity in the Torture Picture: An Article by Glenn Greenwald
What to Make of Huckabee: A Question from Me and an Article from the American Prospect
Violence this Weekend With Religion as the Target
Schmookler is Available for Conversation: A Sunday Edition
Yahoo and the Betrayal of China's Dissidents: An Item from THE WEEK
A Most Rich Essay by George Orwell: England Your England
What Bothers Me About the "Issue" of Romney's Mormonism
Me and the Democrats: An Exchange from Opednews
ACLU Asks Us to Take This Action: Tell Senator Reid to Uphold the Rule of Law on Wiretapping
Here's One Sentence Worth Pondering:
I Bring You Glad Tidings: Two Pieces of Good News from the World Today
Three Fine Little Items from Dean Baker's "Beat the Press" Weekly Roundup
Texas Director of Science Education Fired for Not Being Neutral About Evolution: NTTIMES News Item
A Couple of Questions About the Presidential Race
Republicans and Race: Paul Krugman Piece
What's Wrong with the American Essay: Strong Statement by Christina Nehring
American Media's Stupid and Lazy Version of "Balance": Molly Ivins from 1987
Schmookler is Available for Conversation: A New Genre for NSB
America’s Gulag Goes Before the Court: Marie Cocco Piece from Truthdig
Karl Rove Outdoes Even Himself in Shameless Lying
Women Leaders Under-Appreciated: Interesting Report from Slate
Reckoning: The Economic Consequences of Mr. Bush-- Joseph Stiglitz in Vanity Fair
What Should Be Happening Now: The Put Up or Shut Up Challenge
America's Days of Reckoning: An Important Overview of the Current Crisis from Paul Craig Roberts
What Kind of Spiritual Ideology is Needed? An Exchange Between Morley and Me
Paul Krugman on the Influence of Big Money, the Democrats, and the Prospects for Progressive Change
Our Own Creators: Chapter 7 of THE EXPERIENCE OF MEANING
The Narrative Narrative: Marty Kaplan on Huffington Post
Sharing the Goodies of Life: An Invitation in the Spirit of Thanksgiving
What Should Be Happening Now: Honoring the Presidency Requires Dishonoring this President
The Question of Democratic Complicity
Nat Hentoff on US Torture and Gestapo Precedents
How Should We Be Dealing with the Dems? Some Disagreements Between Sam Gruen and Me
KARL ROVE TO BECOME NEWSWEEK CONTRIBUTOR: Is There no End to the Disgrace Our Media Have Become?
What Should be Happening Now: The “What Kind of Man Could Do This?” Dramatization
The Sorry State of American Democracy: A Passage from a Column by Frank Rich
"Get Off My Plane!" An Emotionally Gratifying Image that Came to Me
Elizabeth Holtzman on Mukasey, Torture, and GW Bush's Legal Jeopardy
Cause-and-Effect in History Are Hard to Judge, But I Wonder
Two Little Snippets from THE WEEK
The Dog that Didn't Bark: The Story I'd Like Bill Moyers to Cover
Big Win for Watada: A Study in Courage and Honor
Confrontation Over Darfur: Carter and the Elders Seek to Bring Peace to the Conflict
"Values Voters" Are Not Just on the Right: A Piece by Eric Zorn
Why Didn't the Democrats Filibuster Mukasey: Budowsky and Greenwald Make the Same Point
Why Have the Dems Been So Weak? Bruce Fein Gives His Answer
Questions I'd Like to See Asked
What Should Be Happening Now: When Your Champions Run From the Field Rather than Fight
On the Kucinich "Impeach Cheney" Gambit: Account from Dave Lindorff
What Should Be Happening Now: When Your Champions Run From the Field Rather than Fight
Bush v. Gore: Some News About Each
The Art of the Hissy Fit: Digby Piece from Common Sense
Ours is Not the First Time to Be Burdened by History: A Repeat of an Earlier Pep Talk
Andrew Sullivan's Dubious Moral Equivalencies
Feingold's Statement: Why He'll Vote No on Mugasey
Feinstein and Shumer Are Wrong
Clueless: The Excoriation of the Congressional Democrats by the New Republic
A Serious Question for this Gathering Concerning Cheney
The Partisan: Paul Krugman's Latest Book Reviewed in the NYRB