Empathy or Anthropomorphism

Empathy or Anthropomorphism

Empathy and anthropomorphism Words don’t mean anything, people do. Much of the conflict we experience, observe or imagine arises from...

Unbecoming American: Don’t get me started

Unbecoming American: Don’t get me started

Where must we start? Every day, we start today A disagreement or a criticism, before it turns into a fight,...

Returning to the 11th century: Before you leave, turn out the lights

Returning to the 11th century: Before you leave, turn out the lights

Technology fetishism and dogmatic irresponsibility Without the use of digital devices, instead mainly that analog apparatus known as the pen,...

Unbecoming American: The Fourth Dimension

Unbecoming American: The Fourth Dimension

Stories, Histories, Fantasies and Desire Essentially there are three standard scripts for the history of the United States of America....

“25 de Abril, sempre”

“25 de Abril, sempre”

Coming soon: Unbecoming American, A War Memoir, available at amazon.com Fifty years ago the Portuguese became the first and only...

Unbecoming American: Sacerdotal Scholarship

Unbecoming American: Sacerdotal Scholarship

Where is the index? A cultural historical explanation The publication of Church Clothes in 2004 was intended to satisfy two...

Unbecoming American: The End of Apartheid?

Unbecoming American: The End of Apartheid?

Unbecoming American: Did apartheid really end in 1991? I wrote my first book, Church Clothes in 1997. It was finally...

Unbecoming American: THE Option for the Poor

Unbecoming American: THE Option for the Poor

Unbecoming American: Option for the Poor Many years ago, in the previous century, an old controversy in the Latin Church...

Unbecoming American: Diplomacy and Distraction

Unbecoming American: Diplomacy and Distraction

Unbecoming American: Diplomacy and distraction The importance of “peace” in the rhetoric of the West lies not in the sincerity...

Unbecoming American: How good are you really? Experience, Expertise and Exaggeration in the US “meritocracy”

Unbecoming American: How good are you really? Experience, Expertise and Exaggeration in the US “meritocracy”

How good are you really? Experience, expertise and exaggeration Since the announcements and acknowledgement that the Soviet Union had launched...