Evaluating the Past Year: The Bad News & The Good
Matthew Fox
December 30, 2025
Looking toward a New Year is often a time for evaluating the year we have just undergone. From the point of view of a new
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Hope: What Good Journalism & Citizens Rising Up Can Accomplish
Matthew Fox
December 2, 2025
In yesterday’s DM, we celebrated a victory for the free press and how The Guardian stood up to Trump’s $250 million lawsuit against them and
Billionaires Behaving Badly & Other Lessons from the Epstein Story
Matthew Fox
November 15, 2025
This week the news has been filled with headlines such as these: “Trump’s Connection to Epstein much worse than we knew”; “Colombian President Petro Calls US
No Regulation: A Government Replacing Democracy with Greed?
Matthew Fox
November 11, 2025
In yesterday’s DM and the video that accompanied it, we laid out the latest attempts at democracide, that is the conscious killing of democracy by people
Is Cruelty the Name of the Latest MAGA Politics?
Matthew Fox
November 1, 2025
Whatever happened to the idea of the “common good”? It seems to have been washed out by the recurrent flood of hatred, cruelty, lies, and
Week of 9/22-27/2025: Sacred Vows & Defending Democracy
Daily Meditations Team
September 28, 2025
This is a weekly summary of the previous week’s Daily Meditations. Some are penned by Matthew Fox (MF), and some by Gianluigi Gugliermetto (GG). You
Peter Thiel, Carl Schmitt, & Silicon Valley’s New Religion
Matthew Fox
September 23, 2025
Yesterday we meditated on the media takeover by billionaires in America. This is not a new thing entirely. After all, Rupert Murdoch has had a
Let Us Not Canonize Charlie Kirk
Matthew Fox
September 16, 2025
Last week, still another tragic political assassination occurred when popular right-wing speaker Charlie Kirk was murdered on a Utah University campus. The act was despicable
Two Republican Presidents: “I am not a dictator.” “I am not a crook.”
Matthew Fox
August 30, 2025
On Tuesday this week our sitting president said at a most unusual cabinet meeting that “I am not a dictator.” Then he went on to
EPA: Environmental Protection Agency or Ecocidal Promotion Agency?
Matthew Fox
August 9, 2025
The EPA was born on December 2, 1970 in an executive order by Republican President Richard Nixon. Congressional hearings followed. It was a time when
