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 →

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 →

#BlackLivesMatter: Preaching, playing, driving while black

02.21.2016 ______________________________________ A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed so stirred some Seacoast readers that they wrote and “urged,” “challenge[d]” and Continue reading →

Prophets Would Stand with Huddled Classes Yearning to be Free

04.20.2014 _____________________ Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy is being embraced by much of America’s right wing as a sort of modern-day Continue reading →