Back in Ireland when I grew up, Easter was a very serious affair. In my hometown of Youghal many shops closed for the entire week, as you might expect in a country at that time…
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Here walks my dad, Arthur Krause with Reverend John Adams and other protesters on his last trip back to Kent State. His daughter, Allison Krause, was slain at Kent State in the student protest against…
Holidays. As a kid I don't remember Easter being such a big deal. Maybe it's because all I had to do was wake up in the morning and all that was required was I find…
At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirl-pools. Excepting only death, he has no enemies left to meet... That man has awakened to a new youth... Ergo, he is young. —…
Just as Guantanamo Bay detention centers and military tribunals have remained in place, the perjury witch hunt trial of Major League Baseball’s home run king, Barry Lamar Bonds, continued unabated and has now reached a predictably ugly conclusion.
For me it is life and taxes that are inseparable: I was born on April 15. Only when I turned forty, six years ago did my friend David Borden, founder of the pioneering synthesizer trio…
After Paul Goodman’s death in 1972 anarchist historian George Woodcock characterized him as perhaps “the only truly seminal libertarian thinker in our generation.” If we ask what made Goodman different from other twentieth-century anarchists in…
One of my guilty pleasures is watching sports highlights on my computer, many of which are prefaced by thirty-second ads for shoes, cars, beer, and the Army.
It looks as though eastern Libya will slide into the Mediterranean under the sheer weight of western journalists assembled in Benghazi and Misrata. A tsunami of breathless reports suggests that Misrata is enduring travails not…