Before the election, I was on a panel discussing how its outcome might impact the pace of action on climate change. A consensus emerged that even though tackling climate change has become a partisan issue, many of the actions required […]
I write this list in the spirit of Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Indeed, there is a lot of overlap, and I encourage you to read his list too!
Sprinkled amidst the euphoria of Kamala Harris becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for President were well-worn pebbles of angst…
It is for good reason that tax-exempt organizations are prohibited from partisan activity and limited in the advocacy in which they engage. As a matter of policy, democracies are right to exempt from taxation work that benefits the common good and not work that advances a particular politician or political agenda.
Birthdays present the chance to reflect on the passage of time, on how one’s life has intersected with the broader narrative of humanity. I was born on November 14, 1984
“Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception. Every nationalist is capable of the most flagrant dishonesty, but he is also–since he is conscious of serving something bigger than himself–unshakably certain of being in the right.” – George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism […]
Sometimes, taking a break from the news and work,
I’ll spot the collected works of this or that poet
and, for a moment, have context for despair.
One might reasonably ask why any nonprofit, let alone a nonprofit lender, should dare to comment on politics. Isn’t that best left to pundits and politicians? In ordinary circumstances, I might agree—to a point. But these are not ordinary circumstances.
How lovely it would be to live in a nation where
poetry put down insurrections. Then I might bang out
this stanza and go sue a wolf for stealing the moon.
“Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.” – John Lewis