In a previous essay, I wondered what aliens would want to know about us if they arrived. I suggested they would want to know what our values are and how we engage with

Why is the current administration trashing truthfulness daily, and acting so cruelly? It’s because they are Dominators, and that is what they do. They want to exert unchecked power over others to

Here, I imagine my dialogue with a Dominator. I challenge his way of living, and we get into it gently. Much more gently than would probably happen in real life. The Dominator asked,

Up to this point, I focused on the contrasting words “truth” and “deceit,” and “compassion” and “cruelty.” Calling out deceit and cruelty was easy because these harmful behaviors are so evident in how

Walking along a busy street, I realized how powerful traffic lights really are. Not in how bright they are, as in visible from two hundred yards away, but in the power they have