Author Archives: John Willis

Christmas 2021 in America – Jesus Still No Threat

Today is December 25, 2021, Christmas in America, except for the Orthodox who will celebrate Jesus’ birth on January 7, 2022.  I thought a few lines would be appropriate for anyone who reads or stumbles across this blog. Christmas in a Collapsing America At least where I live, the local Republican-owned papers print news that […]

Good Ethics Flows from a Healthy Heart

Mark Twain (aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was known for his humor, irony, understatement, and cynicism.  Here he made a statement just the plain truth.  Physical bravery can be seen every day, in every nation, but moral bravery is rare.  What did he mean by this?  Do you understand its importance for you? Physical Courage.  There […]

On the Criminality of Water Ownership: H.G. Wells, Albert Schweitzer, and the Nestle Corporation

I happened to find a copy of an obscure work by H.G. Wells, The New America, the New World (Macmillan: NY, 1935). Wells is famous among people who read–which is a diminishing number–for his many works of fiction.  This little “book” is a small essay of seventy-eight pages bearing some of his most transparent thoughts […]