This Labor Day, those of us lucky enough to have the day off from paid labor might best spend part of it thinking and educating ourselves about the issues of work in this country. Somehow, the righteous anger that was building a few years back against outrageous CEO pay, vanishing pensions, crushing health insurance [...]

As I wrote about recently, we have become a one-car, one-scooter family. (If you want to see a picture, check out the recent American Ethical Union Dialogue newsletter, p. 11.) So how’s it going? I estimate that I’m getting over 80 mpg, which with my short commute translates to less than a [...]

I’ll be in the mountains of North Carolina next week, attending the American Ethical Union’s Summer School II. (The brochure is on the aeu web site–feel free to test me on all these topics when I get back.) I look forward as always to connecting with Ethical Society members from around the country, as well [...]

If you didn’t hear Jim Thomas’s excellent platform address in person, I highly recommend checking out the podcast of his talk, “Gentrification: The good, the bad and the ugly.” Jim did a great job of exploring some of the very difficult issues that come up as the “new urbanism” movement brings newcomers into older [...]

Hello everyone, and thanks for all the great summer reading suggestions. I’m back from vacation, and while I was away I was very sad to hear of the death of Sherwin Wine, the founder of Humanistic Judaism. There is a nice tribute to him on the Harvard Humanist Chaplaincy blog; I especially recommend [...]