I’m a Harvard Reject

I’m a Harvard Reject

Growing up in the Boston suburbs, in the shadows of Harvard, there was only one school I wanted to go to: Radcliffe, which in those days was the name of the undergraduate school for women at Harvard. I had a great uncle who taught at Harvard Medical School, which is...
News From Around the South, 5/26 to 6/2

News From Around the South, 5/26 to 6/2

TENNESSEE: The flow of time: The Tennessee River in Chattanooga has seen more than 10,000 years of human history The 652-mile-long Tennessee River has seen some things in its time. From Knoxville through to Paducah, people have set up shop along the river’s...
I’m a Harvard Reject

Punishing Freedom

All attempts by the government to evaluate the content of speech and deter or punish what the government and its benefactors hate or fear is un-American, unconstitutional and unlawful; and if not stopped, will reduce the American people to serfdom. During the past...
I’m a Harvard Reject

Cuts Too Close to Home

Let me count the ways. Donald Trump excels at broadsides against bright places and people that burnish our world. But now, it’s getting personal. Trump is stealing what I hold dear. I’m not even speaking of press freedom or his suing CBS News, where I...
News From Around the South, 5/19 to 5/26

News From Around the South, 5/19 to 5/26

VIRGINIA: 250 years after the start of the Revolutionary War, a divided America battles over its legacy LEXINGTON, Mass. (AP) — Thousands of people came to Lexington, Massachusetts, just before dawn on Saturday to witness a reenactment of how the American...