Revised September 2013 from Sequence 5 text, January 2004 [click for pdf] Sick, I went with my son, then two years old, to the drugstore in the village where we had a weekend house. It so happened that this… Read More ›
morality
The connection between shoe-tying and world peace
FROM SEQUENCE 2012 December 2012 Walking my son Jonah to school I noticed that his heels were rather swimming in all the space at the back of his new soccer shoes. I asked him if the shoes were too big…. Read More ›
The Beauty of the System
Core piece FROM SEQUENCE 3 September 2001 Subsequently published in Choices: A Chapbook (World Voices, Web del Sol). Introduction added May 2012. A good deal has been written about tobacco, drug, oil and other companies—companies that have worked to… Read More ›
Of courtesy
FROM SEQUENCE 2 March 2000 We might urge people to do unto others, etc., or, per Kant, to act only in accord with a principle that they would at the same time will to be universal law, but we should… Read More ›
Transgression
FROM SEQUENCE 1 February 1999 Later published in Choices: A Chapbook — World Voices, Web del Sol Reading a female colleague’s stories and a book in which women reflect on their erotic lives, I am reminded of how sexy trains… Read More ›
Here is an American Experience
FROM SEQUENCE 1 February 1999 Now with Afterword from October 2012 One day I received from my health-insurance company a letter urging me to cooperate with it and the state in a campaign to eradicate health-care fraud. “Call 1-800-IC-FRAUD,” the… Read More ›
Fear of the Self
FROM SEQUENCE 1 February 1999 Later published as “Kleptomania and its Discontents” in Choices: A Chapbook — World Voices, Web del Sol I am not sure that a person can decide not to be, say, a kleptomaniac or voyeur, nor does… Read More ›
