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  Tribute to George C. Comninel

  August of 2022 brought the passing of George Comninel, a dear colleague and friend. As I did not make the celebration of his life held last month in Toronto, I wrote the following tribute, which was shared in written form at the event. George served as the acting supervisor of my dissertation project from its… Continue reading Tribute to George C. Comninel

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  Nuclear Apathy Redux

  For those of us who grew up during the Cold War, it was something of a coming-of-age moment to realize that at any second of any day, one might perish in the kind of hellfire often preached of in churches but resulting from a strike from a thermonuclear missile launched from the Soviet Union, or… Continue reading Nuclear Apathy Redux

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  The Days After: A 9/11 Memoire, Part III

  Prior to 9/11, all of my visits to New York City left me in awe of the vastness of the city. Used to the wide open spaces and small towns of the Midwest, in New York I felt totally anonymous, just another human being amongst millions, dwarfed by soaring skyscrapers and chilled by cement, glass,… Continue reading The Days After: A 9/11 Memoire, Part III

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  The Day Of: A 9/11 Memoire, Part II

  On the morning of September 1, 2001, the other members of the Voices in the Wilderness group protesting the sanctions against Iraq had left early for the protest site outside the US Mission to the UN when I woke up, maybe around 8 am. Kathy had stayed behind to work on some writing and answer… Continue reading The Day Of: A 9/11 Memoire, Part II

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  The Days Before the Attacks: A 9/11 Memoire, Part I

  In late August if 2001, I traveled to New York City to visit a group of people who were protesting the sanctions against Iraq at the US Mission to the United States. I was not, initially, a member of the group. I was there to interview Kathy Kelly, who directed a group called Voices in… Continue reading The Days Before the Attacks: A 9/11 Memoire, Part I

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  From the Moon We’re Comedy

  One of the things I tell students in my Sustainable Development course is that human beings have an extraordinary proclivity for waiting until a problem is staring them in the face before taking action to deal with it. This must be why Lao Tsu wrote ‘deal with it before it happens, set things in order… Continue reading From the Moon We’re Comedy