politics – Page 7

The Champion No One Remembers

His face was swollen, he was bleeding from a broken nose, and both his eyes were almost shut. This doesn’t even take into

27 Jul

“Let the blood of traitors flow. That is the only way to save the country.” Those words were spoken by Jean Paul Marat during

24 Mar

At times it’s a bit chaotic in here, inside my head. Think of a room with flashing lights of every color one can think of.

10 Jan

I was perusing Facebook and some other social media sites for nothing more than some casual browsing. I’ve curtailed such

09 Jan

The recent statements of author Padma Venkatraman regarding using classic texts such as Shakespeare in the modern classroom

08 Jan

“They” tell us that history is told by the winners. That’s not altogether true as the “losers” write their histories as well,

07 Jan

I’ve stood on the outside on purpose, deciding to take some time away from writing and simply stand there as one would peruse

05 Jan

You can’t save everyone. That’s a familiar refrain heard by anyone in education or any other field of endeavor in which one

23 Dec

It’s not a difficult equation. In fact, it’s rather simple. We simply don’t remember any of it. No American citizen is alive

10 Dec

In his groundbreaking book The Gulag Archipelago, Alexander Solzhenitsyn explained not only his experiences in the Soviet

01 Dec