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East Bay Times Letters to the Editor for Aug. 11, 2023

When Credibility Matters

Get inspired and enlightened by the remarkable non-fiction books of the 21st century, showcasing humanity's diverse experiences.

Often, when I ask someone if they meditate, I hear things like, “distance running is a meditation for me.” Though such responses miss the mark, I usually let it go at that. However turning hunting into a meditation is a mockery of the art that ...

Wine and Dine Gala benefitting the Chris Klug Foundation, Three Peaks Bar and Grill, Snowmass Club, Friday, 6 p.m. Wine and Dine is one of the Chris Klug Foundation’s annual awareness and fundraising events. It...

Tracing the dawn of the Anthropocene shows us the extent to which humans have altered the planet. And the costs of our presence.

On the ambiguities of progress. My friend and one of my first professional colleagues, Maurice Isserman, the leading historian of the 20th century American left, played a game with his kids before they left for college: What’s getting better? What’s getting worse? I can’t think of a better way to reflect on the ambiguities of progress.

I’M AN octogenarian from the days of the party-line telephone, back when we loved singing murder ballads in the third grade and were proud of our cursive writing but I

“I have a child who is of an age that he could live to see the year 2100. So this isn’t such a remote problem.” — David Wrathall, Oregon State