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TomDispatch and Ernest Callenbach
A remarkable insight into our present world and hopes for the future. As many of you dear readers will know, I am incredibly fond of the essays that Tom Engelhardt of TomDispatch fame publishes on a...
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Ernest Callenbach’s last words.
A moving, insightful postscript to the life of the late Ernest Callenbach. This is a continuation of the republication of a recent TomDispatch Tomgram. As I explained in Part One published yesterday I...
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The West in flames
Yet another stunningly powerful essay on TomDispatch. Introduction I do hope that as a result of Tom Engelhardt giving me written blanket permission to republish essays that appear on TomDispatch, for...
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Hope and love
Rebecca Solnit, What Comes After Hope Many of you will be aware that I follow Tom Engelhardt over at TomDispatch. Tom has been very generous in granting Learning from Dogs blanket permission to...
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Our unsustainable way of life
The second of two essays reflecting the ‘New World Order’. Yesterday, I introduced the first essay from Patrice Ayme. Today, the second essay is a complete ‘copy and paste‘ as it appeared on...
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The growth of empathy.
As they say in the old country, it’s an ill wind that doesn’t blow anyone any good! So often when I stare at the screen wondering just what on earth to write about, along comes something to fire me up....
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The loss of democracy, Part One
Probably just now the most important lesson to be learnt from dogs! (read to the end!) I have frequently written about the many growing stresses in societies so, in a sense, today’s post is nothing...
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Progressing Wisdom – the essay.
What is wisdom? On May 11th, Patrice Ayme published an essay entitled Science: Progressing Wisdom. I found it deeply engaging. At the same time, I was frustrated because there was a part of me that...
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Climate Change and Humanity
A powerful essay by Tom Engelhardt from his blogsite TomDispatch. Regular readers of Learning from Dogs know that essays from TomDispatch often find their way onto these pages. They are republished...
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The most elegant writing.
This will take your breath away. Yesterday, I read the latest from TomDispatch, an essay entitled Eduardo Galeano, A Lost and Found History of Lives and Dreams (Some Broken). I wasn’t sure if I had...
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Consequences of a very different sort.
Another in the endless series of the strange affairs of man! Regulars will know that frequently I republish essays from the stables of TomDispatch. Many of you will ask why, I don’t doubt. What have...
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Truth and integrity
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” Thus spoke Thomas Jefferson who died nearly 200 years ago (April 13th, 1743 – July 4th, 1826). But some essays that have passed my eyes in the last...
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The golden age of spying; or whistleblowing?
Maybe an open debate is the most important aspect of this important topic – the one about national security. I am frequently a republisher of essays that are presented over on TomDispatch, as regulars...
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Studs Terkel
Gobsmackingly powerful writing! Back on the 28th October, Tom Engelhardt published over on TomDispatch: Tomgram: Studs Terkel on Death and Forgiveness in America. I read the essay early on that...
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Studs Terkel second essay.
NaNoWriMo sucked up my whole day! I’m loving the writing that I’m doing just now. I am, of course, referring to ‘the book’! What is so delicious is taking a series of topics that, at heart, I know...
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The book! Part Three: Short-termism
Our modern madness! We live in an era that is addicted to short-termism. Largely, I’m bound to say, brought on by the financial services industry. Yet the influence of that same industry is enormous...
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Sometimes the world seems very strange.
Turn aside if you are looking for a bright, optimistic start to the week. Two separate experiences have come together to offer, well anyway for me, a sense of now not recognising the world I grew up...
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The winds of time
Time from two very different perspectives. I’m writing this post approaching midnight (UTC) on the afternoon of Tuesday, 26th May, 2015. In other words, approaching 00:00 UTC 27/05/15. (Or, in...
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The winds of time.
Time from two very different perspectives. I started writing this post approaching midnight (UTC) on the afternoon of Tuesday, 26th May, 2015. In other words, approaching 00:00 UTC 26/05/15 (or in...
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Life without water.
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” That sub-heading is a quotation from W. H. Auden and while directed at man it applies to all animal life including our beloved dogs. The...
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