My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning to the end of my book.
I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?
Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life.
It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.
One of the most important things about looking youthful is to have a modern haircut.
Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.
IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead.
We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.
Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.
Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.
It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not that they are tight with money - they just don't trust anyone.
They keep telling us that in war truth is the first casualty, which is nonsense since it implies that in times of peace truth stays out of the sick bay or the graveyard.
I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my incarcerators though they sleep in warm beds, next to their wives, in their homes.
In war and in peace, in prosperity and times of economic hardship, America has no better friend or more dependable ally than the United Kingdom.
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.
A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.
Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.
