I am driven by a certain solidarity, an ethnic kinship, so to speak, with all Americans of European descent (and with all the subjects of the British commonwealth who belong to the same category). I do not harbour the same…
Danny Cohn-Bendit became the icon of the ’68 Generation that shaped the present epoch. The USA had Abbie Hoffman and future stock broker Jerry Rubin. Europe had Dany le Rouge, ‘Danny the Red’, who led a youth revolt that almost…
Modern Confusion Shamanism, spiritualism, energy work, rainbows and crystals, totems and spirit animals. In our modern world, these things have existed in the realm of either ‘exotic’ (non-white) cultures or have been snugly in the possession of lefty wingnuts. In…
The United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was signed on December 19, 2018 by 164 members of the U.N. General Assembly. Twenty-nine U.N. member states did not sign the compact, including the USA, Hungary, Austria, Italy,…
The open society, as all societies, has not only to contend with the strife within its borders, but also with the conflicts outside of its borders. The open society is agnostic, and preaches tolerance toward different laws and customs, because…