You can read past Moments of Truth in The Moment of Truth Archives.
Jeff delivers his commentary on “This Is Hell”, a unique progressive radio show hosted by bitter, blind, gap-toothed Chuck Mertz, broadcast live from the campus of Northwestern University on the web at WNUR.org every Saturday morning beginning 10am Eastern Time. The show is podcast, and its archives and the excellent website for the show are at “This Is Hell”.
Columns
Friday, September 28 2007
Watch That Whale
If whales were into human-watching, would they watch even while we butchered each other? Do whales have hope for the human species?
Thursday, August 9 2007
Hey, You Got Your Ghost in My Machine!
The body and the machine are born innocent. It’s the soul and the mind that make them dirty and evil. A philosophical meandering into America's obsession with automobiles.
Monday, July 16 2007
The Uighur Sanction, or, The Squeaky Jesus Gets the Fig
A Muslim's fasting irritates him – if you've ever spent the month of Ramadan in a Muslim country, you know what I mean. An Evangelical Christian's proselytizing irritates others. Dick Cheney irritates everyone.
Tuesday, June 12 2007
Come Back to the Five-and-Dime, Soylent Green, Soylent Green
When a "Gravity's Rainbow" perpetually hangs over one's head, dare one feel sunny, happy, optimistic? Or should the storm which brought the rainbow always prevail in one's thoughts?
Thursday, May 10 2007
First They Came for the Latinos
Heard rumors of civilians rounded up, locked up, and searched for papers, lately? Don't worry. That only happens in another America.
