Over the Top? You Have No Idea!

03.21.2021 ________________________________________ Recently a couple of colleagues told me they thought my last two columns were a bit “over the Continue reading →

NFL and Truth-Telling: White People Don’t Know Enough

02.07.2021 ________________________________________ I remember, as I sometime reminisce with friends, the short-lived career of Jim Plunkett, the first player of Continue reading →

Trump’s Shame: ‘It is what it is!’

08.09.2020 ________________________________________ Brownshirts (aka Stormtroopers), instrumental in the Nazi’s rise to power before WWII, were well known for violent bullying, Continue reading →

Systemic Racism in New Hampshire: The View From Exeter NH

06.21.2020 ________________________________________ It was Halloween, 1990 or 1991, and my daughter – dressed as an angel with aluminum foil wings Continue reading →

Let Suffering Speak: Protest. Pepsi. Privilege.

04.16.2017 _________________________________________ “The need to let suffering speak,” Theodor Adorno once wrote, “is a condition of all truth,”  and, I Continue reading →

Deciding what kind of nation we want – and deserve

11.06.2016 ________________________________________ In February, Donald Trump told cheering supporters, “We won with young. We won with old. We won with Continue reading →

Remembering Dallas – and Black Lives Matter

07.21.2016 ________________________________________  NB This column was only published online in The Portsmouth Herald A recent column, “President Obama’s Dallas ‘Me’ Continue reading →

Are America’s chickens coming home to roost?

07.17.2016 ________________________________________ Consider, since 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, an illegal invasion and war crimes Continue reading →