Articles by Fred B-C
I'm a freelance hope warrior. While I am still figuring out exactly what that entails, I write novels and short stories, write for video games, design board games, do inspirational speaking and life coaching, and generally try to make the world just a little bit more pleasant. E-mails at frchristie@ucdavis.edu are always appreciated! (Yes, even trolling ones).
I think many of us have often asked, when we saw someone being bullied as a child, what would make that person decide whether to lash out and become a bully themselves, or
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March 20, 2017 // 0 Comments
Yet again, I’m called upon to redress strawmen, because unfortunately many reasonable people seem, against all efforts to the contrary, to hear something that those of us
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March 7, 2017 // 0 Comments
This is an editorial I’ve been sitting on for a long time. I hoped that, as time went on, the need for it would decline. However, regrettably, in 2016 both of our
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February 21, 2017 // 0 Comments
I normally don’t like list-based articles. They’re ways of effectively turning creative thought into an assembly line of pithy, separate insights, preventing the need for
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February 7, 2017 // 0 Comments
In interactions on everything from the gender wage gap to racial inequalities and gaps in representation, I often get asked some version of the question, “When will you be
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January 31, 2017 // 0 Comments
With a new Republican majority, those of us who care about the poor are steeling for a new round of cuts to benefits. To his credit, Trump didn’t run
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January 24, 2017 // 0 Comments
I like to read on the toilet. It’s a pretty common trait, I know, but it facilitates a time of introspection when the mind is completely unoccupied except for a biological
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January 3, 2017 // 0 Comments
The election of Trump has put many of us at a loss for words. There’s been sadness, anger and denial. In a very real sense, many people are moving through whatever stages
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December 5, 2016 // 0 Comments
As exhausting as this election has been, I continue to submit that we will grow more from this than from almost any other political interactions in our time. I’ve spent a
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November 8, 2016 // 0 Comments
Injustices should cease. That’s practically definitional: we basically define injustices as “unfair things that should not happen.” But how do we get that to occur? As
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November 1, 2016 // 0 Comments
