Preserving American Values

When Barack Obama was running for President, the Republican Right branded him a “Socialist.”   They have also branded Obamacare as “sociali...

People either go on about how great America is, or they lament that America is not as great as it used to be.   In the first case, people t...

My mother is 106 and in a nursing home.   Around the time she turned 90, she went to live in a life-care community, first in independent li...

We are a country that is obsessed with the future, with facilitating the next phase of our “progress.”   In the process, we have lost our c...

For the last few decades, certainly since President Reagan’s nomination of Robert Bork, the nomination and confirmation process of Supreme ...

In my recent post, “The Problem Isn’t Capitalism, It’s Our Society,” (October 8, 2015), I noted that the social problems in all modern soci...