Politico – As the Trump administration slashes billions in funding for research, conducts mass firings of federal employees, and cracks down on institutions of higher education, American pain is turning into European gain.  Across the

“We have no coherent message,” said Representative Jasmine Crockett, Democrat of Texas. “This guy is psychotic, and there’s so much, but everything that underlines it is white supremacy and hate. There needs to be a

Wasn’t it you who told me that when the United States entered World War I, it was practically over?  A character in a book I started reading, ‘We Shall Not Sleep’ by Anne Perry, makes

8/7/11 Meanwhile I am also reading In Memoriam AHH, which I started reading due to the famous phrase ‘Nature red in tooth and claw,’ quoted in Darwin’s Origin of Species. This is a very interesting

Luke Timothy Johnson article in Commonweal, cited in Wikipedia article on supersessionism. bc.edu has other stuff from L. Johnson in search. Also Boston College? Supersessionism comes up again in this week’s reading.    Much has been made

Waverly

The ‘English Novel’ course (Timothy Spurgin) caused me to read ‘Waverly’ by Sir Walter Scott, the inventor of the historical novel. This is the first of about 50 books he wrote. One other one that

Good explanation of Trump-  Carnoy argued that “large blocs of the U.S. population have not been swept up in the economic growth of the past 40 years, which has largely enriched the top 1 percent