In 1929, Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew, U.S./CIA war and coup propagandist, and the founder of public relations, conducted a…
At first an athlete in his father’s image, Next a lawyer on his father’s trail, Then a priest after…
“Once there is a suspicion that a religion is a myth, its power has gone.” Alan Watts, The Wisdom of…
Born in a normal time, The periodic slaughter of millions By the civilized nations of the earth I grew to…
On this date, January 4, in 1960, Albert Camus died in a car crash at a point when he thought…
“Any artist who goes in for being famous in our society must know that it is not he who will…
Silence is a word pregnant with multiple meanings: for many a threat; for others a nostalgic evocation of a time…
Despite a treasure-trove of new information having emerged over the last forty-six years, there are many people who still think…
Here we are in the middle of our lives. Somewhere someone is reading a book, Quietly, deep in thought, pages…
The anthrax attacks that followed those of 9/11 have disappeared from public memory in ways analogous to the pulverization of…