June 19, 2010Progressives must re-learn to advocate for community self-determination, and work to link political activity on this level to national politics.
June 17, 2010A scholar suggests that Phillip Blond's Red Toryism is just another word for conventional conservatism. He may be right about…- June 17, 2010Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn? Harry Potter and Ron Weasley? Anne Shirley and Diana Barry? Disruptive elements, all of them.
June 17, 2010Tea party populism gets its marching orders from Republican leaders in Washington D.C., while Obama pretends to seeth.
June 17, 2010I have a long history with the sour cherry. Here is some of it.- June 16, 2010In 1954, the Bell system (at the time, THE phone company) decided that a technical background was not sufficient, and…
June 15, 2010What if the nation-state was not the cure but the cause of the wars that we term “religious”?
June 14, 2010It’s been almost six years now and I suspect he’s still talking St. Peter’s ear off.- June 13, 2010For several years now, anyone tech-savvy enough to navigate blogspot or xanga has been able to share their thoughts with…
- June 11, 2010The New York Times offers this piece by Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, who argues that, contrary to the skeptics, wringing…
June 11, 2010Why didn't I remember to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month? Does this mean that I am culturally insenstive? Or…- June 10, 2010William Cullen Bryant selected the month of his death: I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains…
