Opinions, editorials & blogs
Mr. Sanders Leaves Washington - My six hour flight with Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders
A Nation At Half-Staff - A modest proposal for an appropriate response to mass shootings.
A Case Against The Iraqi War - Written as a collaboration with my good friend Kenneth Torp in 2003 in the run-up to Mr. Bush's war in Iraq. It is still amazing to me that two self-informed citizens can know more than the entire national security complex. And we are still paying the price of this disastrous policy.
Monopolies And Their Discontents - Local water politics. Opposing the election of a utility CEO to the Montecito Water Board - a public utility.
The Inescapable Misogyny of Prep School - The reflections of an all-male prep school survivor on the eve of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination.
Mount Everest and the Death of Adventure - The moral and ethical problem with climbing Mt. Everest.
