As I stood in line for coffee on the morning after election night, a Democratic Party supporter ahead of me in line…
Ā Ā Ā Threats to academic freedom — direct and indirect, subtle and not so subtle — come from a variety of…
[A version of this was presented to the Methodist Federation for Social Action, Austin, TX.] This past year, after decades of steadfastly…
When I published an article this summer that condemned the past six decades of U.S. policy toward Iran, and the Middle East…
After appearing on FOX News this weekend to defend Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s speech at the United Nations, I got the usual…
We all remember where we were and what we felt on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. I also have a clear…
[A review of Whose Freedom? The Battle over America’s Most Important Idea by George Lakoff (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006).]…
One way to measure the fears of people in power is by the intensity of their quest for certainty and control over…
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The most important words anyone said to me in the weeks immediately after September 11, 2001, came from my friend James Koplin.…
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