Martin Levowitz

There’s nothing you can’t lie about, and, if you do it with enough panache, you’ll be a magnet/hero to most clueless nincompoops.

Not wanting to be governed by my own knee-jerk bias, I sat down to watch the trial. And, for the first time ever, I was wrong.

One truly admirable aspect of indigenous culture is its general, humble sense of mutuality.

There are predators out there, seducers who know how to make themselves liked.

When I stumbled upon a website called godfamilyandguns.com, I thought it was a parody – some silly conflation of machismo and religion. Certain less-evolved persons presume that violence is a morally acceptable and even virtuous reaction of manly believers to those of whom they disapprove. To be both so misguided and to feel so virtuous, […]

The beauty of nature is sacred only to those who have experienced it.

With whom do you identify? And with whom not? It’s pretty hard to mention race these days without an avalanche of woe. The topic is so fraught, to use a current, loathsome term, that even to refer to it (or gender issues, too) is to risk being branded a bigot or boor.  This article derives […]

Of body parts, the head is disproportionately influential. That’s true in social structures, too. Most humans like to feel aligned with those on top, no matter who. It’s surely not a rarity for human kids to idolize a parent when they’re young. How comforting it is to think your father/ leader/deity is wise and powerful. […]

In general, we like to think we know. Uncertainty feels insecure. Rulers, priests, and politicians, either by instinct or machination, have, from the beginning of time, exploited this deep human need. “Hey, follow me! I’ll tell you what The Founders really meant and – even more importantly – what God requires of you.” (Tithe here.) […]