I am an author, independent journalist, talk radio host, former TV talk show host, and former U.S. Senate staff member. My articles have appeared in The New York Times, Esquire, San Francisco Chronicle, Idaho Statesman, and Pacific Sun.

 

My book Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination (White Crow Books, 2025) was reviewed by The San Francisco Chronicle as "magnificent ... no matter what your beliefs, the most fascinating book written on the subject." The UFO Paradox, published in July 2024 from Inner Traditions, examines UFOs as a genuine unknown, from outer space or manifesting from hidden dimensions, as well as the theories of skeptics and debunkers, who insist that UFOs can be explained as hoaxes, hallucinations, or misidentified phenomena. 

 

 To Be a Man (Tarcher Books, 1991) is an anthology of writings I edited on broad themes of men, masculinity, and manhood. Contributors include Robert Bly, Carl Jung, Ernest Hemingway, James Hillman, Franz Kafka and Norman Mailer. This title, now out of print, celebrated that there are many ways "to be a man," and many facets and faces of masculinity. When I was putting this sbook together, it never occurred to me that men who don't by apologize for being male are probably in the throes of "toxic masculinity." Or that men and women would someday propose that they can change their sex by virtue of how they "identify."

 

My book Leaving the Left (Sentinel Books, 2006) is a coming of age story of sorts, focused around my longtime pasion for things political and my growing recognition that "liberal" and "left" aren't synonyms for the same territory, as I had long assumed. Some people thought this meant I now endorsed everything associated with "the Right" (that's the esence of binary thinking). I'm not wild about current political labels. When pressed, I count myself a classical or original liberal, on the side of freedom as a first principle — free thought, speech, assembly, worship, enterprise. Moderate of temperament, the closest I get to absolutism is being on point for what's actually stated in each of the 10 amendments that make up the Bill of Rights. 

 

Genetic testing reveals my people hail from a place called Doggerland, whose low-lying forests and wetlands gradually became inundated (time frame: 30,000 and 45,000 years ago). So roughly speaking, this ain't my first "climate change" rodeo. I'm a father and periodic skydiver, runner of various distances, and friend of canines and stray cats. A native of Ohio, now I live in northern Florida.