I don’t have any interest in starting a political movement. I just want to live life and be left alone as long as I’m peaceful with others. I’m trying to figure out how to do that. If you’re interested in doing the same — and if you want to do it without the shrill and angry confrontations of politics — I hope you’ll join me in a conversation that might lead to better lives for all of us.
My own political evolution is a long and twisting story. I grew up in a generally conservative household, but I was taught to be a political independent. I also learned — from school and from my own reading — to be an intensely patriotic kid. I believed in our political leaders. I believed in the political system. I believed in the morality of this country’s role in the world.
Baby girl murdered by own father is reminder to stay away from abusers
Against all rational choice of will, an old hunger in my heart returns
I’m terribly sorry to break it to you, but straw polls mean nothing
Social creatures: We heal each other, but start dying when alone
Evil media bias? It depends on which lens you’re looking through that day
New command from the French state: ‘Thou shalt not say Facebook or Twitter on TV or radio’
We’re more like other animals than we like to admit to anyone
It took me years to feel the anger I’d repressed since childhood
Correcting an old error: there’s no such thing as ‘We the People’