Gratitude for Jame and Davod Foulser and the Stratford Group: In Three Parts

Part I Gratitude to Dave and Jane             We met Davd and Jane Foulser within our first year of arrival in Chicago in 1968. They were members of John Fry’s church. When they went to England they “loaned” us their car for the year. We remember this vividly because it carried a bumper sticker which…

From Fundamentalisms to Overdetermination

From Fatalisms, Determinisms and Fundamentalisms to Overdetermination: Concerning Richard D. Wolff’s lecture on Global Capitalism: Capitalist Decline in Historical Perspective             If there is a single thread that runs through my life story, from the beginning, it is fundamentalism, and as I turn from the past to the present and future, it’s as if that…

Two Weeks in Kathmandu

A conversation about my upcoming trip to Nepal “I hear you’re going to India?” “No, I’m going to Nepal, leaving Saturday morning.”“Is this a vacation, a religious pilgrimage?”“It’s a business trip. A banking consultant, a guy I’ve known for a few years, is sending me there for a couple of weeks to conduct some computer…