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The Power Of One

June 19, 2025
by Caroline Miller
Eric Hoffer, free will, MAGA, man as a social animal, Our Better Angels, psychics, Sacred Values, tribal leaders, tribal membership, unity within tribes
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A woman in her mid-50s, whom I’d known for two decades, recently dropped me from her Facebook circle.  Once an advocate for women’s rights, she acquired a boyfriend, and not long after, I noted changes in the tenor of her remarks.  Each time she defended MAGA values, I countered
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If Not Now, Matriarchy Will Come

June 12, 2025
by Caroline Miller
"Male and Female", Adolf Hitler, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bertha Vazquez, Doge, Elon Musk, Eric Hoffer, Gaza, illegal deportations, Keystone Cops, Margaret Mead, Melanie Trecek-King, meme coin, Oracle of Delphi, presidential pardons, selling White House tours, Sleepy Joe, Trump vs the Courts, Trump vs. Harvard, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin
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photo of Margaret Mead
The anthropologist Margaret Mead spent her life studying humans and came up with observations that go unchallenged today. One of them is, Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.  But, like the
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Life Among The Ruins

May 08, 2025
by Caroline Miller
D. D Buttenplan, Donald Trumpl, due process, Eric Hoffer, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Grand Old Party, Jean-Jaques Rousseau, Jodi Dean, Joseph McCarthy, Republican cowardice, Trump's corruption, Willy Vlaunt
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During my interview with Willy Vlautin, for Just Read It, the writer said he couldn’t understand why working-class people imagined the rich would act in their interests.  It’s a question I’ve also considered in my blogs.  Pecking orders exist in Nature, so it seems natural for
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Back To The Future

January 09, 2025
by Caroline Miller
Anne Kuste, Cara Nixon, Climate change, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Eric Hoffer, fossil fuels, high speed trains, oligarchs, symbiosis, technology and hmanity, the impact of change on the brain, The X Files, Timothy Snyder
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man and a time machine
Though averse to ageism, I was moved when I  read that longtime Congresswoman Anne Kuste was retiring to allow someone younger to take her place.  As a tribute to her decision, I have recorded below my relevant brunch conversation with a Millennial.                  
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The Truth Is The Truth

April 18, 2024
by Caroline Miller
affect of lies on society, Eric Hoffer, Evangelicals, Gerald R. Ford Medal for Distinguished Public Service, how to be a patriot, lies, Liz Cheney, misuse of public funds, private men's clubs, sin and the soul, The True Believer
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She’s a star within the Evangelical community, but I won’t identify her for reasons that will become clear.  We met decades ago when I was an elected official. Though I am an atheist, I treated members of the religious right with the same courtesy I gave to Mothers Against Drunk
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The Overthrow Of Reason

October 12, 2023
by Caroline Miller
Adolf Hitler, Beetlejuice, Donald Trump, Drag Queens, Eric Hoffer, Falsehoods about Republicans and Democrats, gun advocates, Lauren Boubert, Margaret Mead, misguided patriotism, People lie to themselves, people readily accept lies, Right to Life suporters, the need for thoughtful citizens, The True Believer
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When a high-speed train is barrelling down the track, a person who knows the trestle ahead has been washed away has one obligation–to run in the direction of the impending disaster in the hope of assisting survivors.  Those of us who sense our country is nearing a failed state
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The Future’s Emerald City

September 22, 2022
by Caroline Miller
Bill Clinton, Dani Rodrik, Eric Hoffer, Geneva Protocol, human cloning, humans on the brink of extinction, including our enemies, Josh Hagan, Lisa Smith, mutual destruction and cohesion, nuclear agreements, philanthropy as world changing, Stephen M. Walt, The Emerald City, using the future to guide the present, William Macaskill
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A strategist for the democratic party, Lisa Smith, sums up her political view of the world. It’s radical that being reasonable is radical and being normal is abnormal. ( ”Radical Reason” by Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, October 2022, pg.43.)  Profound as well as surprising, the comme
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Paradise Lost?

January 20, 2022
by Caroline Miller
A Night at the Garden, Black Lives Matter, Cassie Miller, Charles Lindberg, Dante's Inferno, Elmo, Eric Hoffer, feminism, Fritz Kuhn, German American Bund, Hannah Gais, Jack Dorsey, Mitch McConnell, Paradise Lost, Proud Boys, QAnon, social media platforms, Tea Party Conservatives, Twitter, William Randolph Hearst
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“The rubicon (sic) has been crossed. The fire of revolution has been lit.”  So wrote a representative of the white supremacist group the Proud Boys on Telegram, after the January 6, 2021 insurrection.  (“Capitol Insurrection,…” by Cassie Miller and Hannah Gais, Southern Po
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Corrupt Patriotism

October 07, 2021
by Caroline Miller
"Just Read It", Ashley Taggart, Christopher Comer, Donald Trump, Eric Hoffer, Mitch McConnell, nihilism, Oedipus Rex, Piranesi, Sophocles, Susanna Clarke
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“We are a storytelling species, every bit as much as a tool-using one,” writes the author of The English Professor Who Foresaw Modern Neuroscience.   I agree. As a teacher, I would tell my students, “If you want to see how your mind works, write something.”  Composition exp
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In Search Of An Original Idea

October 10, 2019
by Caroline Miller
Blogs, curating, Eric Hoffer, Hello Sweetheart, Love Song of J. Alfrrd Prufrock, Michael Kingsley, plagiarism, T. S. Eliot
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People sometimes ask if I’ve thought about publishing a selection of my blogs in book form.  Naturally, I’m flattered, just as I am when they suggest my novels would make great movies. Such notions don’t swell my head. Steven Spielberg, I know, won’t be calling soon. 
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