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Liberalism Revisited: Climate Change, The Genome, and Mirror Neurons

27 Feb 2013

A Liberal LIfe

by Betsy | posted in: Liberalism Revisited: Climate Change, The Genome, and Mirror Neurons | 0

Just released: Croswell Bowen: A Writer’s Life, A Daughter’s Portrait My bio/memoir about my journalist and biographer father, CROSWELL BOWEN: A Writer’s Life, A Daughter’s Portrait has just been released by Potomac Books. The book tells the story of my … Read More

26 Feb 2013

What Makes a Liberal? Birth or Fate or Both?

by Betsy | posted in: Liberalism Revisited: Climate Change, The Genome, and Mirror Neurons | 6

“What’s a liberal?” I asked my father. We were in NYC, I was 22, and it was 1966, and I was leaving the luscious sylvan acres of my women’s college to go west of the Hudson for the first time … Read More

6 Feb 2013

Liberal-Conservative Gridlock, Genes, and Hope

by Betsy | posted in: Liberalism Revisited: Climate Change, The Genome, and Mirror Neurons | 0

I found my fire-breathing liberal journalist father 220 light years away, in the constellation Perseus, on the edge of a black hole with the mass of 17 billion Suns. It didn’t surprise me he’d ended up here, about to be sucked into … Read More

29 Jan 2013

Liberalism, Smog, and Climate Change

by Betsy | posted in: Liberalism Revisited: Climate Change, The Genome, and Mirror Neurons | 1

Is climate change a liberal issue? It appears not. “Let’s go to the Trans-Lux and hiss Roosevelt!” satirized this 1936 Peter Arno cartoon in the liberal New Yorker.

23 Jan 2013

Liberalism, Tobruk, and a Shared Woodbine

by Betsy | posted in: Back From Tobruk, Liberalism Revisited: Climate Change, The Genome, and Mirror Neurons | 0

In food memories we store our autobiographies. In food memories, too, we find material for biography. Memories of empathy among former enemies reinforced my father’s liberalism: his hope for world peace; for the social safety net. Born in the last … Read More

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