Category Archives: Histories, Commentaries, Commemorations

The scientists, the submariner and the “little cat feet” of climate change PATRICK S. WOLFE “The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn’t happening at all,” David Wallace-Wells wrote … Continue reading →

Tracy Cochran and the reality behind the world[1] PATRICK S. WOLFE Tracy Cochran is editorial director of Parabola magazine, which seeks to illuminate truths common to every spiritual tradition. She believes: “Well-being requires a deep encounter with our experience.”[2] She … Continue reading →

Neil Douglas-Klotz’s Aramaic interpretation of God, heaven, and the Lord’s Prayer[1] Readers are advised that all the translations cited in this article have been described by a translator of Hebrew and Aramaic texts as “incorrect …. massively incorrect.” See the … Continue reading →

Did Hitler do some good things? PATRICK S. WOLFE Two weeks before the 2024 U.S. presidential election, a statement attributed to former President Donald Trump by his former chief of staff, General John Kelly, in an interview with The New … Continue reading →

From tariffs to global warming:  Getting used to the Big Squeeze[1] PATRICK S. WOLFE We live in really challenging times. Premier David Eby’s Jan. 15 commentary about the potential harm of U.S. tariffs bore the title, “B.C. prepared for economic … Continue reading →

What qualities do we want in a prime minister? PATRICK S. WOLFE David Merner’s Times Colonist commentary, “Justin Trudeau: The good, the bad and the ugly,” published on Jan. 8, 2025, two days after Trudeau announced he is resigning as … Continue reading →

The Peacemaker: Protecting the future with a thousand-year-old teaching[1] PATRICK S. WOLFE Toby Ord, an Australian philosopher of Ethics at Oxford University, “has systemically ranked existential risks.” Most dangerous, he believes, is A.I., to which he assigns “a one-in-ten chance … Continue reading →

THE HOLOCAUST IN HOLLAND AND THE TWILIGHT WORLD OF THE WESTERBORK TRANSIT CAMP PATRICK S. WOLFE – EVOLVING PERSPECTIVES ON THE HOLOCAUST IN HOLLAND – WESTERBORK: COMMANDERS AND KEY INDIVIDUALS – WESTERBORK: THE REFUGEE ARISTOCRACY – WESTERBORK: THE TRANSPORTS – … Continue reading →

Recognizing the extraordinary when the veil is lifted[1] PATRICK S. WOLFE According to Rabbi Abraham Heschel, moments occur in every life “when there is a lifting of the veil.” The trick is to recognize this lifting and grasp its rarity … Continue reading →

Samuel W. Wolfe of the G.T. Fulford Company The Story of a Patent Medicine Man and His Internment by the Japanese in 1942 and 1943 By Patrick S. Wolfe ABSTRACT: Starting in the 1890s, Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale … Continue reading →