Speech can help to simplify that which overwhelms.

It is heartening how frequently the Green New Deal resolution is featuring into mass news media conversations.  Despite a tendency for news outlets to court a questionable sense of balance and objectivity and therefore inevitably focus on the extent to which the prospect is a political winner or not, the fact that the resolution is…

Our definition of progress could reorient us to a vision of life.

I recently attended a parks&recreation public input session for one reason only: to firmly state my conviction that mowing large swaths of grass down to a stub is a wasted opportunity to restore a fragment of much-needed habitat to insect populations. I allowed myself to feel free to utter such phrases as “at this late…