No one should be allowed to evade responsibility on the theory that collective guilt creates individual exoneration.

In his soulful book, Beauty: the Invisible Embrace, John O’Donohue writes:

“The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere – in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion and in ourselves.”

Politics is conspicuously absent from the list. And that made me think, can politics be beautiful?

Bureaucrats don’t get a pass because they are just cogs in the machine.

If thinking is an internal dialog, as Plato thought, far too many of us are missing something important.

Who knew anyone remembered Albert Camus, let alone his book, The Rebel? How could it be relevant in the age of the internets?

In the film, “The Reader,” Hannah Schmidt shocks the courtroom when she says that her Nazi-era failure to release 300 prisoners from a burning church made sense because chaos might have resulted from their release. But doesn’t the American health care system lock millions into a burning church that guarantees ill health and death?