November 22, 2020

K-12: What's Our 'Stamp Act'? When Will It Be Enough?

Public school policies around bullying and those who start it are enough to make a parent rise up.

November 3, 2020

Choosing a prom king instead of a president: The power of the politically unconscious

The current progressive platform has no moral center, and the election is a matter of popularity, not policy. For perhaps precisely that reason, it has a great resonance with Millennial voters.

November 1, 2020

Not Buying It: Putting an End to the Tyranny of Madison Avenue by Observing the Sabbath

With non-stop news, social media dominance and calls to buy galore, remember when society would grow still by observing a sabbath?

October 11, 2020

Why Communism is Compelled to Destroy Christianity

As a false god, it begins with lies...

September 13, 2020

Ten Great Deceptions Designed to Destroy the Republic

Repeat a falsehood a hundred times and very often it becomes a noxious substitute for truth.

August 22, 2020

Why I Am No Longer a Social Worker

In the modern social-work paradigm, there is nothing to believe in or hold onto besides your Self, there are no prohibitions and no judgments besides those unfairly imposed upon you by white males the world over. 

August 9, 2020

How Therapists Became Gods

Despite our frenzied pursuits, we’re possibly the unhappiest group of people on the planet. 

July 25, 2020

How to Prepare for a Communist Coup

Hard as it is to imagine, here are some thoughts on what to do.

July 17, 2020

Can a Whole Country Go Mad?

It seems the me-centering of the current generation is having some surreal consequences.

July 9, 2020

Economic Cannibalism: What Millennials Don’t Know Will Hurt Everyone

The question more appropriately becomes not which system is “nicest,” but which economic and social system best deals with the reality of human nature.

June 28, 2020

Until We Have Faces: The American Niqaab

What is the effect of the extended COVID-19 mask-wearing on all of us?

June 6, 2019

Can We Just Call It Soldier’s Heart?

What we now commonly call PTSD has been recognized as a formal disorder only since 1980. Does it matter what we call it?

May 18, 2019

No Regrets

Having regrets stands in sharp counterpoint to the culture of having it all and being it all. 

May 8, 2019

The Religion of Feeling: A Warning to Conservatives

Republicans appeal to reason and facts, while Democrats appeal to the enormous head of illogical steam that lurks in the unconscious minds of youth.

February 4, 2017

A conservative social worker! (Is that even possible?)

The field of social work is openly, brazenly, and almost uniformly a left-listing ship. 

October 20, 2010

The Great American Trance

Americans are in a deep state of trance, and it's not a good one.

October 13, 2010

Stimulate This

Has anyone been bailed out besides unionized government employees? And if so, what have they proposed doing with the money?

July 18, 2009

There is No Help

It's a nightmarish paradox: To urgently need help and believe that ultimately there is none.

May 24, 2009

The Survival of the Caretaker

When Marie had to face the reality of her father's Alzheimer's she knew she was also facing a decision she likened to "choosing between jumping off a cliff or getting hit by a bus."

May 23, 2009

True Grit: Growing Old in America

Ours is one of the few civilizations in recorded history that not only ignores the aged but devalues them.

May 3, 2008

Be Happy: The American Refusal to Deal with Suffering

We are a nation of hopefuls and always have been. In our relatively short time on earth, this nation has spawned more utopian societies and splinter religions promising immediate deliverance than any other culture in history.

December 31, 2006

It Could Happen Tomorrow: Fear-Based Resolutions for a Happy New Year

I may be one of the only people in the United States who does not indulge in the frenzy of resolution-making between Christmas and New Year's Day. I am not entirely clear whether that makes me either disinterested or impervious, but it is true.

December 24, 2006

Viral Fear: The Disease of the American Soul

There is a wonderful interpretation of mankind's fall from Eden by Scott Hahn. He asks the question so many of us forget to ask: While Eve was trying to fend off the serpent's temptations, where was Adam?

December 20, 2006

'Tis The Season To Be Fearful: The American Limbic System

Everyone knows that sex sells. It has been a truism for hundreds, more likely thousands of years. Until now. Because the number one seller is no longer sex. It's fear.