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September 10, 2021
Category: Personal
March 6, 2020
Who do we vote for when the generations disagree?
Before the show began, a group of them started chanting, “please don’t make me vote for Joe Biden.” Others followed and for a glorious 90-seconds, the entire venue erupted in this collective lament. This chant haunts me.
October 7, 2019
The First Breath of a Philosopher: A Eulogy (Remembering David N. Mowry, part two.)
I have asked myself repeatedly what it was that made David’s courses so powerful.
June 24, 2019
What’s it like being Jewish in North Dakota? My testimony.
I recently testified via telephone before the North Dakota Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. I was one of six people to speak before the committee. It was a disaster. I and other speakers were disregarded and attacked. I realize now that my and others’ testimonies are too important to be limited to just the committee members. So, I am publishing my remarks here, for everyone to read.
November 21, 2016
Molli Bernstein died this weekend: death in the age of Facebook.
The internet keeps so many people at such a distance that it is hard to know when it is proper to try to make that divide smaller.
September 11, 2016
A sermon and an essay on the events of September 11, 2001.
Two essays in honor of the 15th anniversary on America.
February 22, 2016
Where do I go from here? A blogger asks for help solving a blogging-related problem.
Has this blog really just been mine all along?
June 26, 2015
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