Or rather, I’ve Moved: https://occasionalreflections.substack.com/
Why, you may wonder? Substack appears better suited to long-form writing, honors opinion without censorship, and, well, provides a better user interface.
In a recent BBC “Woman’s Hour” interview, Zara Mohammed, the first woman elected Secretary…
A rather contentious topic in online debates revolves around the question of masculinity, and this is especially so on…
In recent days I have found myself re-reading the Southern Agrarian manifesto I’ll Take My Stand. Published in 1930, I’ll…
There is a scene in Cormac McCarthy’s dystopian novel The Road where the boy and father…
Mom & Me & Mom is the final autobiographical work written by the late Maya Angelou and the last of her seven…
John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath tells of the Joads, a family of tenant farmers who reside in an…
Commitment to the gender diversification of Muslim quarters appears to be inching towards a regional…
It is a trite observation by now that our politics and discourse are tribal. Few issues arise in the public sphere…
El Paso and Dayton: we can now add two more to the already depressingly-lengthy register of mass shootings in this country…
China is a totalitarian, repressive, and evil state.
It seems these days that novel controversies pitting men against women and women…
A few weeks ago I was returning from a business meeting in Hartford. Having rented a car, I returned the vehicle and was seated…
Trees cannot grow in desolation. When suffering malnutrition, trees require careful nourishment. Done well, previously weak roots…
Having shared Dr. Shadee’s remarks on Rashida Tlaib, I was asked recently about the topic of pronouns and God and how the pronoun “he” can be reconciled with a deity that is fundamentally beyond and above the construction of gender. I ended up writing slightly more than originally intended…
We live in an age of identity. Our politics, social conventions, and conversations are inextricably tied up in…
For many Muslims, the past week and a half has been difficult. Fifty dead in mass shootings spanning two mosques in New Zealand…
It can be difficult being a Muslim youth today. Many are anxious about their lives, their future. They worry about judgment from every…
The midterm elections and successful campaigns of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib have…
Much has been written on the enervation of American religion in the modern era…
A major preoccupation of observant Muslims today is figuring out how to formulate a religious program that can somehow…
