August Letters to Jim: A crazy election coming, schools opening and sports!
Letters to Jim: August, 2020 Summer is unfolding, the virus is still with us, and our president appears to be
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July letters to Jim: Hate mail and peace loving liberals
We are halfway through the year and unless you have access to some marvelous hallucinogens, you probably can’t wait for
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game Soon
The first time my father took me to a major league baseball game, at the old Memorial Stadium on 33rd Street, I thought I was entering a kind of holy place.
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Stuck in the Middle: How Education Contributes to the Business of Inequality
It was not how any of us wanted the school year to end. There, in yellow bags, were the leftovers
Read moreStop Fighting the Civil War and Start by Tearing down the Confederate Flags and Statues
The South lost that war but got to keep all its flags, which sympathizers wave about as if taunting the winners, declaring, “Hey, we’re still here.” And they built statutes to those turncoats who tried to tear America apart.
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Inspirational: Blacks and Whites Protesting Together Against Racial Injustice
They’re saying what our better angels have been saying for years: America wasn’t created to “dominate” one another, but to learn from each other, and to find each other’s better selves, whatever we happen to look like.
Read moreJuly Letters to Jim: COVID-19 and protests around the nation
Wow! There is a lot going on and the mail this month is filled with questions and concerns about a
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We Need Our National Day Of Mourning
Covid-19 is a brutal evaluator, and the painful grips of racism and division are not absent from its reach. We are in pain. We are angry. We are hurt. We are scared.
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George Floyd’s Brutal Murder: Racism is Tearing America Apart
As pieces of America burn, this city instinctively winces. This time the anger follows a Minneapolis man named George Floyd, murdered in front of everyone’s eyes. But here we still remember five years ago and the televised rage and rioting that followed the death of Freddie Gray.
Read moreBaltimore’s Tragic Loss: Notre Dame Closes After Helping Students Reach for the World
The sign said, “Reach for the World.” It was there when those two remarkable political figures were students at Notre Dame, and maybe it remains. But now there’s no one reaching for their checkbooks, and so goes the school, and so goes a marvelous history.
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