Branding New Hampshire Educators With a Scarlet ‘E’

11.21.2021 ________________________________________ In 1850, in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne, after being seduced by the local pastor, becomes Continue reading →

Racism: Being Content with My Own Kind

11.14.2021 ________________________________________ “My belief is that people prefer their own kind – same color, same nationality, same politics, same age, Continue reading →

Racism Thrives Beneath the Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree

10.31.2021 ________________________________________ The opening of Tariq Ali’s historical novel, Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree, set in Spain during the Reconquista, Continue reading →

Republican Senators Complicit with Insurrectionists 

10.24.2021 ________________________________________ As I travel to Maine occasionally to shop and visit friends I consider Senator Susan Collins local, especially Continue reading →

Menace in the Blood Shout of the Crowds

10.17.2021 ________________________________________ Recent video coverage showed shocking images of Donald Trump supporters chanting “Fuck Joe Biden” at public and sporting Continue reading →

Banned Books: Matters of Common Humanity – and Survival

10.03.2021 ________________________________________ This past week was “Banned Books Week” in America during which the MacArthur Foundation awarded a ”Genius” award Continue reading →

America: Whose Story is Missing, Whose Voice Suppressed?

09.26.2021 ________________________________________ “We believe the one who has the power,” Yaa Gyasi writes in Homegoing. “He is the one who Continue reading →

9/11: A Personal Reflection, in Pain and Hope 

09.12.2021 ________________________________________ “How was your flight?” “Great. I flew from Amman to Newark where I went through customs, then caught Continue reading →