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In just a few short weeks, Californians will head to the polls to decide, among other things, the fate of their months-old experiment with same-sex marriage.  A voter-initiated proposition (”Proposition 8“) aims to re-write the state’s Constitution to take away the right of any individual of any sexual orientation to get married. Opinion polls show […]

All too often, wisdom is found in the most curious of places.

We have forgotten how powerful one person has become over the course of seven years.
Today, the President of the United States is the most powerful person in the history of civilization. More powerful than Caesar, the Tzar, or the Fuehrer.
In the course of seven years, the President has assumed the following powers:

He has assumed […]

When you engage in thinking, no matter how mundane or profound, you must remember that you are engaging in a profound act of creation.
When a human mind thinks, it is doing more than simply transferring electrical impulses through biochemicals across synaptic channels. Perhaps this is the biological explanation, but it is at most a […]

Freedom is more than a political goal. It is a psychological state, as well as a spiritual quest.
When we are born, we arrive into a world where there is little freedom. It is true that the laws of many countries guarantee freedom. But it is also true that such laws are given […]

Depending on who you ask, anywhere from one quarter to one half of Americans — anywhere from 75 to 150 million people — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder.
If we are to believe these statistics, there are literally tens of millions of people today, or even hundreds of millions of people, who have trouble finding […]

Without vision, the people perish. — Proverbs 29:18
A person must have vision if he or she is to be happy. A vision guides action and provides meaning and purpose; it creates the future. When there is no vision, there is no purpose, and hence no happiness.
Nations, as well, have their own visions. […]

Demand More is undergoing some changes for the better. We’ve instituted an email list at right, which will allow you to receive commentary by email. Something we’ve struggled here for some time is the dilemma of quality over quantity of posts. While we’d love to be able to post daily (and indeed […]

The people are no fools. Forty-eight percent of Americans — close to half of the population — feels that the best way to help the economy is to end the war in Iraq.
This logic, so far ignored on the campaign trail, is the only logic in the public discourse with any grounding in reason. […]

Sixty years after the passing of Mahatma Gandhi has witnessed the spread of war and greed to far reaches of the Earth. But it has also seen the spread of Gandhi’s ideals concerning nonviolence in ways that would have brought a shining grin to that great soul. In America, Dr. Martin Luther […]