Matt Agnio·Apr 17, 2020The Core Modern ValueIt’s not hard to say that America has transitioned from a society in which the values were primarily determined by religion to a society…
Matt Agnio·Aug 27, 2017A story from The MotherMany spiritual traditions (in the West, particularly the arcane ones) hold that there was an original, divinely ordained plan for life on…
Matt Agnio·Jun 27, 2017Note that Universal Health Care is Probably InevitableRepublicans have continually wanted to strike against Obamacare ASAP, with the complaint that once you give an entitlement it’s very hard…
Matt Agnio·Jun 19, 2017To the uproar over offensive speechIt seems to me that the general and increasing uproar about offensive speech is often approached from the wrong angle. Or at least from an…
Matt Agnio·Jan 29, 2017The Muslim Ban (first weekend)The way the new executive-ordered immigration policy has been enacted completely disregards the lives of good people. The overwhelming…
Matt Agnio·Jan 28, 2017War on Terror: The Good Guys (and the Bad Guys)In his acclaimed history of the Iraq War, Thomas Ricks is pretty clear: The central failure of U.S. policy in the Iraq after the invasion…
Matt Agnio·Jan 26, 2017In the age of science there is still necessity for poet souls.We may not have a models so absolutely perfect that they can account for every nuance in the changing climate, or that they can calculate…
Matt Agnio·Jan 20, 2017President Trump is a symptom……and every last disruptive thing that he does is a symptom.
Matt Agnio·Dec 31, 2016Keeping “not normal” not normalIf we’re going to have a fair discussion, I wish Trump supporters — both the the quiet, “wait and see” supporters and the overt, gung-ho…
