Take 60 with Steve Bowers

Nations: Not Always Been This Way 22.09.2023 0:59 ↓

Organizing people by Nations (the only way we think) is relatively new ... Raises question: What Are We?  Nation? or Collection of  States?  And Where Are We Headed?

Transportation: Rivers To Rail To Interstates ... Determines Our History 22.09.2023 1:01 ↓

Transportation .. more than just travel ... determines our history!

Sacred Struggles? Putting Government in Religious Terms 22.09.2023 1:00 ↓

Secular Religion replaces the spiritual with government and politics.  Danger!!

Participatory Transcendence 15.09.2023 0:58 ↓

Covid separated us .. and we have not returned to church or theater at the same level ... What are we missing?  Participatory Transcendence contends Kate Cohen ... But in Participatory Transcendence we are connecting with what?  Something beyond us, or just ourselves?

Like A Missionary To Save The Heathen 15.09.2023 1:00 ↓

Paris 1919 - the victorious Allies gather to administer the World ... and the United States - though late entering the War, functions how?

Live Equal: Pap Singleton and the Exodus of 1879 05.09.2023 1:00 ↓

Benjamin "Pap" Singleton promoted moving West to build a place to live equal.

Shared Space: India On The Moon 24.08.2023 0:59 ↓

For so long it's been just US ... Now a changing World ...

Black-Robed Politicians 24.08.2023 0:57 ↓

The Judicial System is expected to be law, not politics ... But ...

Bring Daddy Home, Now! The Army Mutiny of 1946 15.08.2023 1:00 ↓

War is Over!  Bring Daddy Home, Now  - 1946!

Everything Has Changed! 15.08.2023 1:00 ↓

First Presbyterian Church Jackson TN Celebrates It's 200th Birthday.  If you could bring back the members from the Centennial in 1923 how would Jackson look to them?

TV Less News 15.08.2023 1:00 ↓

TV Evening News for decades an information anchor.  Today??

Former President Trump Indicted - The Rest is Commentary! 07.08.2023 1:00 ↓

News is News and Commentary is Commentary ... Today's "News" Networks Blend Them.  News telecasts used 30-minutes to cover the world.  Cable News Networks takes an hour to "cover" one story.

Dementia Puts Those We Know In A Different World 07.08.2023 0:57 ↓

Personal reflections on the "loss" of a friend ...

Flag Was Still There! 07.08.2023 1:00 ↓

The sight of the flag confirmed our nation still lived ... 

Loneliness - Not Just the Elderly 07.08.2023 0:58 ↓

Loneliness in the most connected time in human history.

Barbie, One Thing She Has Never Been! 27.07.2023 0:58 ↓

Barbie has been separating us from our money since 1959 ... But, despite many changes, there is one thing Barbie has never been .....

Collective vs. Individual? Collective!! 27.07.2023 0:59 ↓

At one time there was one Party more comfortable with Collective and another Party more comfortable with Individual.  Not Anymore!!

Would Do Well To Remember! 27.07.2023 0:58 ↓

Life on this planet is and has been tough ... But we live in a different world .. and we would do well to remember!

Loneliness: The new pandemic? Not confined to the elderly! 20.07.2023 0:58 ↓

Loneliness!  The most connected generation discovers isolation?

Contrast 1973 (Watergate) to 2023! When Facts Mattered! 20.07.2023 0:58 ↓

Watergate 1973 - What did the President know and when did he know it?  Back when facts mattered!

Take A Bite Out of Crime .. May Be Less Than We Think 11.07.2023 0:57 ↓

NY Shoplifting Stats Reveal Stunning Statistic ... Fewer people than we think responsible for a large number of cases ...

Children Belong to Whom? 29.06.2023 1:00 ↓

When may/should government interfere/intervene with family? You can't tell me what to do with my child!   That's how we feel!  That's fundamentally what we believe, but ....

The Fosbury Flop 27.06.2023 1:01 ↓

Innovation always meets resistance ... but do it!

Took Both Sides To Get It Passed 27.06.2023 0:59 ↓

Politics  - Working With The Other Side Changed America ... Lesson From Everett Dirksen

Bought Every Vote I Ever Got 27.06.2023 1:00 ↓

Politics ... The World The Way It Is?!?!