North Korea and the full meaning of ‘I and Thou’
“The sealed border was not just at the 38th parallel, but everywhere, in each person’s heart, blocking the past and choking off the future.”
—Suki Kim, Without You, There is No Us
Category: Opinion
The myth of a monochrome ‘Western’ civilization
By Nick Gier Reader Columnist If Western civilization is defined by religion and culture, then Mexico—with its Catholic heritage and historic ties to European monarchies—is unquestionably an outpost of “the West.” But for Trump...
Weighing In
By Ben Olson Reader Staff Last week, while GOP senators were scrambling to find enough votes to pass a repeal for the Affordable Care Act (a fight they ultimately lost), President Trump fired off...
Making the case for wilderness designation for the Scotchman Peaks
By Carey Chisolm Reader Contributor As a recent retiree who moved to North Idaho from the Midwest, I have been interested in the discussion about the wilderness designation of the Scotchman Peaks area. I...
Climate Change is a FACT
By Tony Lewis Reader Contributor First of all, climate is ALWAYS changing. That is a FACT! Let’s review a couple of things about climate. There are many variables to it, including: 1) Temperature (mean,...
Tragedy of the common sense
By Tim Bearly Reader Contributor From a young age we are all inculcated with binary reasoning. An either-or form of logic which typically results in an excluded-middle (no in-between) paradigm, with only two alternatives:...
A hippie on the Long Island Railroad
By Tim Henney Reader Contributor The following is an unabridged journal of a conversation with my visiting kid brother, the late Christopher Clark Lewis, commuting on the Long Island Railroad from downtown NYC to...
Demystifying nudism: and other reasons to recreate nude
By Jodi Rawson Reader Contributor On the swim team I covered myself entirely in a towel and only shimmied out of it before I jumped into the water. I changed in the bathroom stalls...
Scotchman Peaks Wilderness: Why it is important for North Idaho
By Bill Harp Reader Columnist If you spend a lot of time looking at geography using satellite and aerial images like I do, you quickly realize that there are very few places in the...
Debating climate change in a post-logical era
By Christian Rose Reader Contributor It would be nice to have a civil debate with a climate change proponent — old school. But this is proving impossible. So I won’t waste your time outlining...
