Tag: politics

  • Thoughts

    Reading The Guardian‘s obituary for Vaclav Havel I was struck by a quotation from him: “Experience of a totalitarian system of the communist type makes emphatically clear one thing which I hope has universal validity: that the prerequisite for everything political is moral. Politics really should be ethics put into practice.” I wish politicians could…

  • Trying not to be political

    I have a personal rule not to post about politics. I enjoy and learn from other people’s political posts, but I don’t know that a post ever changes a reader’s mind. I guess posting on politics is more about affirming where you belong. Just so everyone knows, I belong on the left side. Because of…