HOW THINGS LOOK FROM DOWN HERE: One View From Among the Peons, Peasants, Plebeians, and Hoi Polloi
Like most, you may be unfamiliar with Turner-Brown. Learning about it might make you wonder how something a Justice Department official calls “diabolical” has not been more widely reported. That may soon change. The […]
Read the essay →Two of my sisters followed in the footsteps of two of our aunts and became school teachers. One went the traditional route of college right after high school. The other got married after high school, […]
Read essay →Someof our ancestorswere notimmigrants,did notscrimpandsaveto book passage on shipscarrying them away from poverty or persecution for the promise of prosperity,had been happyin their homelandsthrough which flowthe Niger, the Congo,were as contentthereas were the […]
Read essay →I once took a ferry across the English Channel from Dover to the Belgian coastal city of Oostende, and spent part of the summer in that country. My first trip to the capital, Brussels, was […]
Read essay →One of the most controversial concepts of Christianity – difficult for many Christians and non-believers alike to reconcile – is the idea of salvation being available only by grace. Even after setting aside what one […]
Read essay →There’s been a lot of talk lately in this political season about poetry and prose. Specifically, references have been made to the late Mario Cuomo’s statement that “You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose.” […]
Read essay →Those who declared “Black lives matter,” might have avoided some of the reactionary foolishness that followed if they had ended that sentence with “too.” Forget it should not be necessary, that it should be obvious […]
Read essay →One Sunday morning, only a couple of weeks after finishing high school, I was awakened and told there was something in the newspaper I needed to see. Still half asleep, I stumbled downstairs to the […]
Read essay →I need your help. No, I am not stranded in some far-off place where I have lost my wallet and cell phone. It is much more serious than that. If you believe there is something […]
Read essay →Once, while wandering the ancient streets of Avignon during that town’s annual arts festival, I happened upon a performance in the courtyard of a medieval building, a building that baffled me. It was called the Palais […]
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