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A Soft Landing: Non-Profit, Goodbye
This is the tenth essay in the series, A Soft Landing, which explores how we might achieve a more just, equitable society without violent revolution. Here is a non-obvious suggestion to make our society more just and equitable: eliminate non-profit … Continue reading
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Tagged charity, foundations, non-profit sector, private sector, public sector, taxes
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A Soft Landing: Immigration: The Ultimate Test of Our Humanity
This is the ninth essay in the series, A Soft Landing, which explores how we might achieve a more just, equitable society without violent revolution. Immigrants are perfect targets. The foreigner seeking opportunity, refuge, or escape ignites our fear of … Continue reading
What’s Your Narrative?
Divorced white male, retired from a career in construction industry, spends most days at the gym or taking solitary walks, evenings watching old movies or PBS American Experience. What have we here; a psychopath in training. Successful architect … Continue reading
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Tagged alt-truth, Happy New Year, humor, personal narrative, relative truth
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New Year’s Wish
In January I watched a man die. I had never witnessed death in real time before. Thus began 2018, my year of gloom. Harry, a longtime friend, drained away before my eyes. His breath crescendoed in torment, until it eased … Continue reading
There Goes the Neighborhood
Change happens continuously. But we humans only notice it episodically. I’ve lived in the same neighborhood for more than 25 years, a few crooked blocks separated from the rest of Cambridge by Route 2. I call it the suburbs of … Continue reading
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Tagged Cambridge MA, gentrification, Inflatable Santa, Strawberry Hill, Tesla
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A Soft Landing: Universal Service
This is the eighth in the series, A Soft Landing, which explores how we might achieve a more just, equitable society without violent revolution. Americans are quick to claim our rights and we are slow to fulfill our responsibilities. That’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Americorps. US Army, CCC, FDR, Peace Corps, Universal Service, WPA
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Paterson
I like to watch movies. This is not to say I am a movie buff; rather watching movies is my preferred form of downtime. At this point in my life, my energy level sags around 7:00 PM. It’s too early … Continue reading
A Soft Landing: Universal Basic Income
This is the seventh in the series, A Soft Landing, which explores how we might achieve a more just, equitable society without violent revolution. The idea of universal basic income is not new; the theory’s been around for decades. Small-scale … Continue reading
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Tagged Economics, free enterprise, Universal Basic Income, Universal income
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The Women Who Mapped the Stars
The pivotal scene in last season’s Nora Theater Company production of The Women Who Mapped the Stars takes place around a dinner table in the year 1900. Or maybe it’s 1910. Or perhaps 1923. Whatever. Four nineteenth century women scientists … Continue reading
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A Soft Landing: Impact Taxes
This is the sixth in the series, A Soft Landing, which explores how we might achieve a more just, equitable society without violent revolution. Taxes are a most effective form of behavior modification. Every kind of tax, no matter how … Continue reading
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