Posts Tagged ‘government’
The Case For Charlie Gard
July 11, 2017
Charlie Gard, the English child you see here, will likely die—indeed, by the time this is published, he may have already died. Charlie has Mitochondrial DNA Depletion Syndrome, which in short means that through some catastrophic chain of rare events, his bodily functions are failing him. No cure has been found for this disease. Still,…
Read MorePassover and Government Presence
May 1, 2017
“In what ways do you experience the presence of government—city, county, state, federal—in your life, your daily life, your professional life?” That’s how we began, with that question. Asking questions, that’s the practice, isn’t it, that leads to liberation? And that’s why we were there that night, wasn’t it, to recount an experience of liberation…
Read MoreDead People: Leszek Kolakowski (1927-2009)
June 27, 2016
For Gregory Wolfe The following is an excerpt from Meis’s new book Dead People, published June 24 by Zero Books. Leszek Kolakowski died July 17, 2009. He was a philosopher, a man of letters, historian of ideas. He lived the twentieth century life. It sucked. But like many a Pole, he made the best…
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