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The Debt We Owe to Suffering
- Featured, Philosophy, Religion, Uncategorized
- August 15, 2025
How are your New Year’s resolutions going? I rarely make them, but this year I have. Please do not mistake the title. I did not write “make more enemies,” though to be honest that might not be a bad one for some people. That would be a different essay, however. This is not an essay
READ MORELast December, I received an early Christmas present that I would have rejected just one year earlier: an “M” for “male” on my driver’s license. The switch back to male marked the end of a long journey of gender confusion and self-deception. Along the way I became a transgender activist and then America’s first legally non-binary
READ MOREAlmost anyone of my generation will remember Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, he was a hero in the struggle against Soviet tyranny, as well as being one of the finest novelists and historians of the twentieth century. Back in the late-1990s, I had the inestimable honor to travel to Moscow
READ MOREThe media narrative on American politics has become so tedious you don’t have to listen anymore. Every story seems to follow a formula, and never more so on than on the Martin Luther King holiday. Every headline proclaims how black Americans are horrified at Trump’s insensitivity to the historical plight of blacks in the civil
READ MOREBefore I begin this narrative, you need to know I am not a frequent flyer. In fact, I am an infrequent flyer. In the last twenty years, I have boarded an aircraft three times. Please bear that in mind. In August, I went online and purchased a ticket to fly round-trip from Washington D.C. to
READ MOREDear Greta Thunberg, Congratulations on making the cover of Time and being named “Person of the Year.” That’s quite an achievement for a person your age. Though I had followed you online by reading a few articles, the Time honor led me to look more deeply into your background. That investigation left me with some
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