Commentary

“So a judge, who had shown contempt for the human rights of others, wants to enjoy free speech as a human right himself? Free speech is an important right. But is it a more important right than those of life…

My first reaction to the growing conservative campaign to ban or remove books from libraries is that they – sigh – drastically overestimate the number of kids who even know where the library is. This is not to dismiss the…

  This is a partial screenshot from my son’s phone. Last week my granddaughter texted him from her middle school. They were in lockdown and she had learned that it was not a drill. A friend’s mother texted the terrifying…

“Whiny little bitch.” – Bill Maher, describing Donald Trump in May, 2016. “Irrational, pouty, vain, thin-skinned, hysterical and just not that bright, does that sound like anyone we know today?” he added. Aside from the admittedly gratuitous pleasure I take…

The complex issues of sensitivity, censorship, expression, art and history splashed down on the front page of the New York Times this week in a pair of articles. One piece examined the legal case brought by Quebec artist Sam Kerson,…

We all have to live with ourselves, but occasionally one is left to wonder how. This week on MSNBC, Steve Bumbaugh, College Board Senior Vice President, did his corporation’s bidding by defending the indefensible whitewash of the AP African American…