Sitemap - 2025 - The Way We Live Now

Where ICE is refreshing, not arresting

Who are the men in masks?

Two items from the US of A

16 days in China, back in the USA

'Tis the gift to be simple, 'Tis the gift to be free

On The Degrading Effects of Life Online

“What ever happened to femininity?”

The importance of beauty on Earth Day

Why Harvard matters: A Cartography of Resistance with Keith Grint

A return to China and to Dunhuang

Is the American Age over?

You & the AI piracy scandal

Billionaire reboot: Starbucks as Third Place

April Fool's Day 2025!

Life in public: a continuing affair

#Thanksfortyping: The making of Ted Hughes

Worst cabinet since Caligula

Better any day now

What is the "town square"?

Standing up to bullies & finding common ground

The resistance: Washington DC and London

Civic Life, a history - Part II

It’s the phones: loneliness, conspiracy theories, less empathy, and - argh! - less sex

Civic Life, a history in 2 parts

Green Party 1990 to Principles First 2025

A conversation about "schoolishness"

Join me in Washington DC, or on Teams

Desi pubs - a conversation about race, exclusion, and resilience

Simon Winchester talks about The Man Who Loved China

La Ecología de Papá corre en Silicon Valley

Notes, Chats, & a new meetup date

Celebrating Snakes at Lunar New Year

Consider Occam's razor

Never never surrender

From the US Capitol, January 2021

Restaurateur Mark Firth on hosting, farming, & drinking

The politics of creation

American princess priestess poet

Trump, Putin, and the climate apocalypse

A good word for the Good Book