[The full-length version of this story can be found here.] Ten years ago this Sunday, 9/11 produced a spasm of blind rage in America. It arose from a pre-existing blindness as to the way much of the world sees us. That in turn led to the invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, Afghanistan again, Pakistan, Yemen and […]
Tom Hayden
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9/11 Blindness
A condensed version of this article appeared in the Sept. 8 print edition of the North Coast Journal After witnessing the first jetliner crash into the Twin Towers on that September 11 morning, a friend of mine’s wife and 7-year old daughter fled to their nearby Manhattan loft and ran to the roof to look […]
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Jerry Brown’s Karma
I asked my friend Angela Oh, defense attorney and Buddhist priest, what she thought of the karma of Jerry Brown. Pausing only for a moment, she replied that “his karma is to inherit the collapse of so many institutions his father built.” Infrastructure decay. Traffic congestion and pollution. Water shortages. More prison inmates than state […]
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Dreams of Obama
Barack Obama, it is true, is a transformational leader. But he needs a transformational movement to become a transformational president. He is transformational not only by his charisma and brilliance, but by embodying the possibility of an African-American being chosen president in the generation following the civil-rights movement. Whether he wins or loses, the vast […]