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These pictures of my grandson, Tate, confirm for me what a beautiful world ours can be.

I stopped writing in this blog over a year ago. Too many words, and why add more. Well, just for me I guess I'm adding more. Sally Qui...

Lately I have begun to cringe when I hear students and others say that they have researched a given subject. They mean, most of the time, t...

I am listening to the president's news conference spinning his interpretation of the interim report to Congress on Iraq. His words ma...

What would this man have to do in order that all good people, democrats, republicans, and independents, might join together to impeach him? ...

We spend our energies reinforcing and reinterpreting borders. The relationship between Palestine and Israel. The Berlin Wall. White and colo...

Seymour M. Hersh's series of articles in the New Yorker outline the Iraq war we hear little about. His most recent story , "The G...

I was reading in Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton recently. The author makes what was for me a really startling comment about how through...

Not exactly news, I guess, just one more way of life curtailed. The Washington Post reported this week on the plight of the Hadzabe people ...

Two of the three great branches of classical learning are in eclipse, and rhetoric, the study that Cicero regarded as the greatest of the th...