Prologue “Don’t believe everything you think” (Bumper sticker on a car in Berkeley, Calif.) September 4, 2026 In order to sort out how to understand our world and then to decide what our personal responsibility should be, it is best to begin with a little humility. Here are some reminders to myself to help me try to be humble, judicious, and clear eyed about the current situation, getting ready for my own discernment about “artificial intelligence” (AI) and deciding how to re

July 12, 2026 Note: The Trump Administration and the reactionary politics throughout much of the country continues to make war on the historic promise of our nation based on the Declaration of Independence, the constitutional system of equal opportunity under the law, the civil war to uphold this vision, and almost a century of political and judicial judgments to institutionalize this vision. The crisis is immediate, demanding a Bonhoeffer-like resolve as I urged in my Post