AI, College Plagiarism and Existential Crises: Reimagine Higher Ed.

Education, Sustainable Economies

I spent thirty years teaching college social science courses, developing strategies for dealing with plagiarism. Receiving a copied paper was always the most painful part of the job. I tried to develop assignments so unique that it would be impossible to find...

Our Existential Crises Are More Fundamental Than AI

Sustainable Economies

What does it mean to have an existential crisis? According to the World Health Organization, half the population of humans on the planet lack water for sanitation, and a third lack safe drinking water.  Surely, we can not exist without water. The World Food Programme...

What kind of Foreign Policy Do We Want? A Feminist Proposal

Social Movements, war and peace

    February 28 2026 At this moment, when the United States is bombing Iran, and the Epstein files reveal a global network of powerful men raping children and the earth for profit, it is a good time for us to consider what an internationalist, feminist,...

My International Board of Peace

Israel/Palestine, Social Movements, war and peace

January 2026 When world leaders signed off on Donald Trump’s International Board of Peace to oversee Gaza, dystopian fiction writers despaired. Who could write anything worse?  The only place to go at a moment when reality bests horror is to our imaginations....

Book Tour Journal: Tornados and Hurricanes, Human and Natural.

Latin America, Public History, Sustainable Economies

We were in Montgomery when tornados devastated downtown Selma, on January 12, hitting urban and rural regions across Georgia and Alabama, and killing at least eight people. In the morning we had considered riding to Selma, stopping to take in the art and public...