Reflections on human interaction, human culture, human institutions and human relationship to the physical world. Current focus: democracy, inequality, economy, education, Appalachia, and climate change.
PhD Sociologist, retired from college teaching. Specialist in community, political, and environmental sociology. Appalachian, Jew, "radical leftist."
A life in essays: born under bombs, raised in Austria, thirteen jobs later. And what any of this is supposed to mean.
How can we both enjoy our lives and do what we can for this troubled, impermanent, beautiful world?