Year End Survey
While this retrospective doesn't mark the Chinese New Year, a page from that culture may help to put our calendar year 2019 into perspective. “Yin and yang” reflects a universe governed by a cosmic duality, sets of two opposing and complementing principles or energies that can be observed in...
Looking back on the language of 2018 provides cause for pause.
Dictionary.com picked “misinformation” as its word of the year, on the heels of Oxford Dictionaries choosing “toxic.”
While misinformation has always existed, it became more prevalent in 2018, fueled in part by the...
2017 has been a trying year. Political divisiveness on the rise, civility seemingly in decline. Sexual harassment coming to the fore in entertainment, media and the body politic. Those narrow of mind and short on tolerance emboldened to spew forth hate speech and scapegoating, coming to a tragic...