Tony Long writes: It was a lousy year, 1968. I was in high school then. I quit the baseball team because, frankly, sports seemed frivolous. In 1968, there were more important things to worry about than perfecting a curveball. All very high-minded and, in retrospect, more than a little pompous. But nearly 40 years down …
As a female opinion journalist, I’ve been called everything from bitch to whore to sweetie. and The psychic impact of hate mail is something female writers don’t often talk about in fear of appearing vulnerable in the male world of opinion writing. I believe women can take the heat of opinion journalism as well as …
These are just a few quotes from Pass the Bread ~ Bill Moyers powerful, May 20, 2006 Baccalaureate Address at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY (posted on CommonDreams.org) Thank you for inviting Judith and me to share this occasion with you. Fifty years ago both of us turned the same corner you are turning today and …
Ben Cohen has an ax to grind with the Pentagon. Or an Oreo to grind, as it were. The man who co-founded Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream thinks there’s a better way to spend $60 billion of the country’s money than on Cold War weapons systems, and he has the numbers to prove it. Mr. …
Alec and I drove up to Seattle on Thursday aftternoon. We were meeting Noel when he got off work at 5:30 but traffic wasn’t bad and we got there early. It was a beautiful day so we got some excercise by walking around the Seattle Center and over to the Experience Music Project (EMP). The …
As Rosenthal ascended to the top of the Times ladder, his prejudices defined the unspoken but nevertheless unmistakable rules for deciding what was fit to print. As journalist and writer Charles Kaiser, who worked at the Times under Rosenthal, put it, “Everyone below Rosenthal spent all of their time trying to figure out what to …
Ginsberg, who had studied at Columbia University, sent a poem called “Dream Record, 1955” to poet and essayist Kenneth Rexroth. “It still sounds like you’re wearing Columbia University Brooks Brothers ties,” Rexroth told Ginsberg. “You know, it’s too formal.” So, Ginsberg says, “I sat down and just started writing what I thought about.” The resulting …
Getting an education is about gaining the tools we need to succeed in life. The greatest tool that I’ve gained from my time here is perspective, the desire to learn from people different from myself and to attempt to see the world through their eyes. The greatest lesson I’ve learned is that, in this democracy, …
Alec and I met at Everything for Everybody, an organization that was a shelter for homeless people in New York City as well as a ‘soup line’ and much more. We then moved to Mississippi and founded a similar organization in our home. Most of the people who needed shelter from us were battered women …