Europe defies Russian predictions The winter is almost over, and there has been no energy crisis at all, Gwynne Dyer writes. By Gwynne Dyer — Wed., March 8, 2023 ”The cold is coming soon,” gloated former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev last June. He predicted that the citizens of the European Union, deprived of the Russian gas … Continue reading Ukraine: Winter’s Ending; No Catastrophe
March 7, 2023 – in person at Earlham School of Religion & on ZOOM, 6-8 PM EST. To register FREE Today, Click here. The Separation Generation: Discussion – March 7 at ESR & on Zoom, 6-8PM EST To register FREE Today, Click here. From 2007 to 2018, five U. S. Yearly Meetings split apart —one … Continue reading Tomorrow! The “Separation Generation” Discussion – March 7 at 6 PM EST
[NOTE: Tom Friedman interrupts his New York Times column today, which is about Ukraine & Israel, to quote a jibe he’s hearing often these days]: Hey, Friedman, all you seem to write about these days is Ukraine and Israel. Don’t you have anything else to say?
I didn’t vote for Jimmy Carter in 1976. In fact, I didn’t vote at all that year. I’m not proud of that, but there it is. It happened mostly because I was away from home on election day, and because I wasn’t scared. That autumn I was trying to write a novel about Quakers … Continue reading An Ode to Jimmy
One of the most shopworn and least shocking of discoveries about USA higher education Is that of Ivy League “affirmative action” (aka preferential admissions) for the non-genius children of wealthy donors or powerful alumni (mainly WASPS). This “exposé” (which, to be fair, is also found at many other non-ivy schools) has been around about a … Continue reading Harvard, Affirmative Action, “Reparations,” & Me