Author: Knoxville Progressive

This week I’ve been listening to… Ahmad Jamal’s 2005 CD, After Fajr. After Fajr During a recent trip to the library, while flipping through the CDs, I encountered an old friend, a smiling man with a dove on his...

Will wonders never cease: “It is getting hotter, and the icecaps are melting and there is a buildup of carbon dioxide in the air…” “…We really need to address the burning of fossil...

“We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the...

“The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces...

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. — Rachel Carson, “Silent Spring”