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Another Ode to Dr. King
January 18, 2021

On the third Monday in January you’ll find me
writing an ode I can’t quite finish, like a New Year’s
resolution I’ll stick to next time, I promise.

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Be The Change  / poetry

How Can We Lose When We’re So Sincere?
June 14, 2020

The true traitor lacks not morals but moral imagination. I shall
no longer grant the premise that we must debate amidst the
rubble of a world the unimaginative have plundered—

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America on the Brink  / poetry  / Politics  / Pragmatic Idealsim

What Bliss Has to do With Horror: An American Reverie on War and Peace
April 11, 2020

It is late-April 2003 and I’m well enough to bathe. Mom draws
the bath, peels off clothes and bandages. A month of sweat and blood
disappears in eddies of soap and steam. Civilians cower in fear—

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America on the Brink  / poetry

45 to Stop 45: an Idea to Ignite Mass, Nonviolent Protests
February 16, 2020

Trump now thinks he is a king, acts like a king, and is deferred to by the Republican Party as though he were a king

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Damnatio Memoriae
October 6, 2019

To resist through nonviolence, yes—
I’ll do what the data says is wise.
But to love is another matter:
I may wave the flag, but I am no patriot;
Is it not better to burn what they betray?

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America on the Brink  / poetry

All That Noise Over There – Hong Kong & the Inconvenience of Nonviolent Direct Action
September 15, 2019

Last week I had an interesting and telling experience at a conference, the topic of which was the exciting world of Financial Technology, or “fintech.”

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philosophy  / Politics

The Machinery of the State
July 29, 2018

A relentless South Texas wind poses impossible questions,
Flaps the smirking flags until they are upturned,
Mists the mown grass with evil’s sputum,
Ripples the lone unarmed security guard’s shirt
As he waves concentration camp employees

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Can Love Trump Hate?
July 22, 2018

This is an oversimplification, but one way to think about the Civil Rights Movement, especially from the mid-to-late 1960s, is that there were two philosophical approaches: Dr. King’s faith-based, inclusive, nonviolent strategy; and Malcom X’s Black Power, “the bullet or the ballot,” movement.

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philosophy  / Politics

What I Saw in McAllen and Brownsville, Texas
July 21, 2018

“The trouble with [Nazi war criminal and participant in the Final Solution] Adolf Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. 

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Why I’m in McAllen, Texas
July 14, 2018

We 21st century humans are pretty good at studying and learning the lessons of history but terrible when it comes to turning this knowledge into action. Consider the myriad books that have been written about the two World Wars, the Vietnam War, Stalinism, the Rwandan Genocide, the HIV / AIDS epidemic, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and other events

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