Current Affairs

Dear Mr. President, Well, another year of teaching is quickly coming to a close and the wife and I are in the middle of planning our summer vacation.  I know how important education is to you and I always keep your words in mind whenever I am feeling overwhelmed or tired: “Rarely is the question [...]

The commentary in the mainstream media surrounding the sermons of Jeremiah Wright and what it means in terms of Barack Obama’s vision of American have been sickening to say the least.  We rarely get any serious discussion, just the same few tapes played in an endless loop.  Worse yet most conservative commentators, who have taken [...]

Thanks to historian and blogger Ed Blum for his thought-provoking post, “God Damn America” in Black and White which can be read over at HNN.  This was just the kind of historical context that I was looking for and I may even follow up on some of the suggestions for further reading: “What is striking, [...]