VIRGINIA BEACH. A little over a year ago, my friend in Chiang Mai, Zachary Stockill, invited me to be a guest on a new podcast he was developing. His previous podcast, "Travels in Music," is excellent and he is such...
CHIANG MAI. It's too bad the Colin Kaepernick story is only playing out in sports media, because to me it's a huge story about contemporary America that should be getting much more attention. His situation is Black Lives Matter colliding...
CHIANG MAI. Three words that I find recycling in various repetitions: "fascism,” "facts" and "fake.” I'd like to take these words on one by one and suggest that in our attempts to do the right thing, be might be doing...
CHIANG MAI. The thing that I fear is the repetition of sameness in thinking, an ongoing dialectic of conservatism and liberalism. If this election has taught us anything it’s that “thought,” in the sense of a zeitgeist of thinking, had become ossified,...
WALNUT CREEK. Count me in as still shocked. Several of my friends predicted a Trump victory but I did not. I thought we’d be here thinking in a different set of realities, about a different kind of fight and set...