Voting in America: Mid-Term Delights and Delusions  

11.13.2022 __Two days after our recent mid-term elections a hangman’s noose was discovered at the Obama Presidential Center construction site Continue reading →

It’s About Race; It’s Always About Race 

10.16.2022 __”Since January 2021,” Education Week reports, “42 states have introduced bills or taken other steps that would restrict teaching Continue reading →

America Has a Lot of Work to Do

07.10.2022 __America has a lot of work to do. We’re having a hard time facing our history, resisting nativist impulses, Continue reading →

Where They Burn Books, They Will Burn People 

02.06.2022 __ “Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to vapid innocuous Continue reading →

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 →

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 →