Alongside of my business and consulting interests, and alongside the unfolding emergence of my life as a lover, caregiver, and widower, I have always been a poet and author. So far, I have authored seven books, six of which have been published. An eighth is nearly complete.
Most of my books have been different than this blog. They have focused on the world, economics, politics, climate change, philosophy–in other words, the outer world. In two cases, I tried to bring an inner perspective to those outer world events. One in Rooster Crows at Light from the Bombing, which is an edited collection of poems and essays on the first Gulf War. The other was in my more recent work on #MeToo, , in which I tried to dig under the rhetoric to get to the inner drivers and a deeper understanding. and have written on men and the #MeToo movement as well. My unpublished books are another one on postcapitalism and one that builds on my lifelong concern over climate change, which began when I first heard about “the greenhouse effect” in the 1970s.
In many ways, these outer world projects helped to balance the turmoil of my inner world. For readers interested in the bigger picture of my thinking and work, I list the books here.
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On the surface, #MeToo has some very clear direction for men. But the inner life of men is complicated. Author Anthony Signorelli dives into the treacherous waters of men’s inner life as they experience #MeToo. He deconstructs what have become “magic words” in the discussion: privilege, entitlement, consent, objectification, patriarchy, and toxic masculinity. Readers may find his perspectives controversial, but they will certainly be provocative.
This exploration of political liberalism identifies legitimate and necessary places for progressives, moderates, and conservatives in a liberal democracy. “Liberal” is not a dirty word. Rather, it connotes the core principles of American democracy, without which the country could only move toward autocratic rule. In the wake of January 6th, 2021, these core principles are more important than ever, as the country came ever closer to autocratic rule. Only our ideas can inoculate us from that catastrophe; so we need to know what our foundational ideas really are. “What Is Liberalism? will help readers move to understand the core principles we all hold as Americans, and also to understand when beliefs and ideas are outside the pale of our politics.
What will happen when capitalism dies of its own volition? When everything is digital, will there be any jobs? How will the robots affect you… but also, how will they affect the world we live in? These essays will stimulate your imagination and help you think differently about the future that awaits. Capitalism is going to end, the question is, how will we help shape what comes next?
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For far too long, two bogeymen have been blamed for the errors and problems of our modern world–Rene Descartes and capitalism itself. Yet even Descartes’ mechanistic universe and capitalism together cannot account completely for the juggernaut that has become our western way of life. Instead, a unique dance between the historical emergence of modern thought and capitalism’s unique laws of motion created The Great Mechanism–an underlying system and process that propels culture and capitalism forward despite its troubles, failings, and obvious problems.
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In the 2006 divisiveness of American politics, one could see that liberals were demonized and true conservatives were disenfranchised. It is even worse today. Bridging the divide means seeing the greater commonality that we share as Americans–our rights, our love of liberty, and our commitment to great principles. We don’t always live up to them. January 6th, climate change, culture wars… all these illustrate that we have a lot to learn. But this book points the way back to finding that commonality.
This amazing little book, a response to the invasion of Iraq in 1991, includes work by Robert Bly, Deena Metzger, Ann Patchett, Wendell Berry, William Stafford, Tony Harrison, and Coleman Barks. Twenty-one writers in all capture various aspects of the national mood at the time–not the gung-ho fist pumpers gloating about victories they knew nothing about, but rather the currents of the deep soul. A worthwhile read whenever war is at our footsteps.