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My Turn: Two ways to look at Earth The Earth as seen from the Apollo 8 spacecraft as it emerged from the dark side of the moon. The NASA photo, taken in 1968 by astronaut William Anders, has been named “Earthrise.” NASA PHOTO Published: 5/6/2021 2:04:05 PM There is always more than one way to look at things … unless you are locked into a belief about the matter under discussion that is unshakeable. Margot Fleck’s excellent My Turn essay on April 14, “Our place in the universe,” is one way to view planet Earth. Another is the view of Earth from the 1968 Apollo 8 orbit around the...

My Turn: Role of “evidence” in social life  jacoblund jacoblund Published: 4/14/2021 7:24:10 AM I have just read John Bos’s My Turn (April 9) that separates “Belief” and “Acceptance,” as a way to explain the divisiveness in American politics today. Belief becomes accepted, in the Le Guin/Bos argument, by the function of “evidence.” It is an intelligent and passionate argument that I find persuasive. But my lifetime’s habit of having been a professor of sociology prompts me to offer this contribution to Mr. Bos’s excellent article: Mr. Bos assumes that “evidence,” ...

Belief vs. acceptance Published: 4/9/2021 10:38:52 AM I am fond of quoting Ursula Le Guin. In her last book, “No Time to Spare,” she clarifies the difference between belief and acceptance. Asked if she believed in evolution, she would answer “no.” Most readers would register a moment of “what?!” before reading on. “I don’t believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution. I accept it,” she writes. “It isn’t a matter of faith, but of science.” Le Guin says that belief “has its proper and powerful existence in the domains of magic, religions, fear and hope.” She then stat...

Preston Browning Jr.’s My Turn essay — “What goes around south of the border comes around” (March 27) — is another example of the uptick in important My Turn articles on The Recorder’s op-ed page about the true history of American foreign policy.With respect to America’s history on the other side of our incomplete Trump-built wall, he writes “The American public has almost no knowledge of our country’s role in turning the countries of Central America into what might be called ‘plantation dependencies’ states theoretically independent but actually little more than colonie...

I was very surprised upon reading John Bos was involved in the production of “South Pacific” in Cohasset South Shore Music Theater.I was taken to the production even though I lived in Montague. A friend of the family (Ellen) came from Hanover to work...