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Dehumanize Then Shoot: When “I Must” Replaces “I Choose”
When I was a teenager during the Vietnam years, the war came into our living room every night. The TV glowed blue and gray. Helicopters thumped like a mechanical heartbeat. Young men, barely older than I was, walked through smoke and jungle and fear, rifles held tight to their chests. I remember thinking, even then,…
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Poet Renée Nicole Good Did Not Have to Die
On a quiet street in Minneapolis, a woman sat in her car and spoke calmly to a federal agent. “I’m not mad at you,” she said. Minutes later, she was dead. That sentence should stop us. Not because it is dramatic, but because it is revealing. These were not the words of someone attacking anyone.…
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Precarious Whiteness: Who Gets In, Who Gets Out, and Who Decides
Whiteness in the United States has never been a fixed category. It’s not just about skin color; it’s a combination of law, social acceptance, and access to power. Some groups, like the Irish and Jews, were sometimes treated as “outsiders” despite their light skin, while Black Americans were legally and socially barred from full inclusion…
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Words as Weapons: How Focused Sociopathy Pushes Us Toward Conflict
Wars don’t start with bullets. They start with words that strip dignity away, spark contempt, and train neighbors to see each other as enemies. A single insult may look harmless, like a match. But enough matches tossed out carelessly, can light a fire no one can put out. As a teen, with a draft lottery…
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Hiring an AI: Job Interview with GPT-5
Intro BlurbEverybody’s talking about AI these days. Some swear by it, some swear at it. So I thought—why not sit one down for an interview? If an AI wants to be my go-to generator, it had better pass a proper job interview. Spoiler: things got weird, funny, and oddly persuasive. Meet the Candidate I invited…
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Agape and the US Presidency: A Chronological Top 10
Introduction: Agape as a Political Virtue Agape (ah-GAH-pay)—selfless love that wills good for others—is not just a church word, but a measure of what makes a presidency or country great. In politics, it appears in choices that put collective well-being over self-interest, justice over expediency, and empathy over division. At times, U.S. presidents have embodied…
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The Great Law and the Great Experiment
“We bind ourselves together by taking hold of each other’s hands so firmly and forming a circle so strong that if a tree should fall on it, it could not shake nor break it.” — Deganawida (Mohawk) This living principle of union, spoken by Deganawida, the Great Peacemaker, was the foundation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy’s…
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