by Mark Beckwith | Feb 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
The fear mongers and the anger entrepreneurs are ubiquitous. Their messages — on air, screen or in print, are intended to arouse the ego and trigger a reaction. Fill us with resentment, indignation or fear. Concepts and issues that had once invited conversation are...
by Mark Beckwith | Feb 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
There are some serious, if not dangerous, fault lines in American discourse these days. Some have been around for decades – notably attitudes toward guns and abortion; and we take care to avoid these issues or tread lightly around them in conversation with people...
by Mark Beckwith | Feb 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
Free speech, which most people in America recognize as a fundamental right, is undergoing endless and painful scrutiny these days. What opinions should be allowed – or prohibited, on Facebook or Twitter? When do stated certain political or religious convictions...
by Mark Beckwith | Jan 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
If you haven’t seen the video, you certainly have heard about the savage beating of Tyre Nichols, which led to his death, murder charges brought against five Memphis police offers who carried out the atrocity, and their subsequent firing. Brutal, horrific, evil. And...
by Mark Beckwith | Jan 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
In the wake of 40 mass shootings so far this January, I am struck by – and stuck on, some paradoxical statements that have echoes in different parts of the country. The first, from Shannon Watts, who is the founder of Moms Demand Action, a gun violence prevention...
by Mark Beckwith | Jan 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
Our country pauses today to honor the memory and challenge of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We remember him as a prophet for civil rights who, throughout his public ministry, dared to bend the arc of history toward justice. But it didn’t start out that way. As...
