I just received a questionnaire/survey out of the blue (as far as I know—what did I click on/subscribe to by accident or perhaps by design?). And while completing the survey about peace in Ukraine (and wondering if the questions and answers aren’t biased to the right and toward Russia), I thought of a story idea:Continue reading “I Have a Question(naire)”
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Campuses: WTF?
When I arrived at Berkeley in 1985, I saw a makeshift shantytown on the campus. It called attention to apartheid in South Africa and sparked my awareness of that situation and of politics in general. I mean, the campus was steeped in political protest since the free speech movement decades earlier had ignited a trend—thatContinue reading “Campuses: WTF?”
Freedom Isn’t Free
What does freedom mean to you? Freedom is the opposite of pornography: you know what it is when you don’t see it. As Americans, we look at other countries and can be proud that we, in the land of the free and the home of the brave, are not subjected to authoritarian rule as theyContinue reading “Freedom Isn’t Free”