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Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreI had a cousin, born a few days after I was in the same Midwestern town, with whom I was close growing up. In some ways Mike and I were as different as night and day,...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreChina just passed Japan as the second largest economy in the world. Never mind that per capita income in China is still at Algeria’s level. It’s an important milestone, though it raises the question of qualitative...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreThe first hint of autumn is in the air. There’s a subtle change of light and atmosphere, and more tangibly, a new breeze in the treetops. The first, lightly anchored leaves are falling into the creek....

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFevreOne of the best studies of good and evil by an American writer is Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd.” If you haven’t read the novella, there’s an excellent 1962 film with the same title, which stars, and...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFerveIt’s near dusk, and the parkland seems to be full of Cooper’s hawks. At one point on the path, a large, brown, stipple-winged hawk takes off from the path ahead of me with some small animal...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFerveHere we are again, 65 years and tens of thousands of nuclear weapons later, commemorating the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Perhaps it’s because my first political memory, at ten, is of the...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFerveA few friends and I have been asking: Are there choices in life, but is the chooser an illusion? If so, what is the basis of right action? These questions go to the heart of the...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFerveThe American media, even the progressive media, are promoting the idea that most of the life on Earth has been wiped out many times before—by asteroids, comets, or super-volcanoes. Why? Because the best pretext for continuing...

Featured Columnist – Meditations Martin LeFerveThe branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of knowledge, especially with reference to its limits and validity, is called epistemology. Ironically, such specialization is at the heart of the problem of philosophy in the modern...