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Towards the end of the 19 th century the Native peoples of America were in a pretty rough spot. Before white settlers had arrived in the 17 th century they had spread out from coast to coast, representing numerous tribes, each with their own unique legends, customs, and cultures, but as settlers moved west, they experienced tragedy. Frontier settlers and the U.S. government would actively take land from the Natives, relocating them and violating treatises with the tribes the whole way, with Native revolts met with military force and many tribes beaten into submission. Violent confrontations, ...

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 06:05 UTC "We are survival machines-robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes." This is Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene. His selfish gene theory, he remarked in 1989, "has become textbook orthodoxy," because it is merely "a logical outgrowth of orthodox Neo-Darwinism, but expressed as a novel image." The image is misleading. Dawkins doesn't literally believe that genes are selfish entities with a will to replicate themselves. If they were, they would be like animating souls. In the Darwinian world where Dawkins lives, genes are no...

The Myth of Human Progress Clive Hamilton in his “Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change” describes a dark relief that comes from accepting that “catastrophic climate change is virtually certain.” This obliteration of “false hopes,” he says, requires an intellectual knowledge and an emotional knowledge. The first is attainable. The second, because it means that those we love, including our children, are almost certainly doomed to insecurity, misery and suffering within a few decades, if not a few years, is much harder to acquire. To emotion...

Forum, Jan. 16: What the conviction of Trump in the Senate could achieve Published: 1/15/2021 10:00:04 PM Modified: 1/15/2021 10:00:03 PM What the conviction of Trump in the Senate could achieve I write in response to Bill Donahue’s thoughtful letter (“Don’t give Trump a platform,” Dec. 15), which suggests that the Senate dismiss the article of impeachment “on the grounds that Donald Trump will not be in office anymore.” That would mean Trump “will no longer have a platform in Congress to maintain his lies.” All that is true, and the sooner the impeachment trial is behind us,...

Published: 1/11/2021 10:00:26 PM Modified: 1/11/2021 10:00:04 PM Attack on Capitol left me feeling violated, vulnerable I wept at my desk as I saw the events of Wednesday, Jan. 6, unfold at our Capitol, the symbol for a democratic style of government around the world. It has been more 200 years since our country experienced something like this, the War of 1812. I believe the United States of America is the greatest nation on Earth and I felt personally attacked, violated and vulnerable. One particular image, of a man proudly parading a Confederate flag inside the Capitol building, was jarrin...