Tag: history
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Memoir: Caught professionally off-guard (1987)
My first year of high school teaching was in the all-boys Fenwick, where I taught English and coached the Speech and Debate teams. I’d brought speakers from the community to my classes –war veterans, businessmen, and controversially, an atheist and a communist–to broaden the boys’ minds about the outside world. While the Fenwick fathers indulged…
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Presidential election analysis: a clash of beliefs around our governance (2024)
Next Tuesday’s election will manifest a divergence of belief around our national government–not belief in the value of specific policies, but belief in the established norms and institutions of our government themselves, in whether the game of republican democracy should even continue. One side more-or-less still believes in equality of persons before the law, accountability,…
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Fantasy dinner: Hello, grandsires (2024)
Dear Great Grandfathers, It’s been 120 years since you were in the full force of your manhood, yet all I have of you are a few stories and characterizations left to me from your grandkids, who were my parents. Please dine with me (presuming your magical embodiment nourishes itself at my favorite French restaurant on…
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