Jamelle Bouie is rapidly emerging as one of the more acute and important members of the rising generation of New York Times columnists. His career has followed a different track than previous generations of Timesmen, among whom almost all roads to the paper led through Harvard Yard. Instead, after the University of Virginia, Bouie blogged … Continue reading The Impending, Ominous Return of “States Rights”
I wonder how many temporarily “Canadian” truckers, recently evicted from the bridge at Windsor/Detroit, are now chugging their way west across the windswept snowy plains, aiming for the desert around Coachella, near Palm Springs California? It’s not just the weather (weekend forecast sunny, dry & high 70s) that’s drawing them. Or the three local Indian … Continue reading Behold: the USA Truckers Caravan Cometh
Wayne Finegar II of Baltimore Maryland was formally approved to become the next Director of Quaker House in Fayetteville NC on Sunday evening, February 13, 2023, by the Quaker House Board. He succeeds Kindra Bradley, who stepped down in October of 2021 due to family concerns. Wayne’s employment officially begins on March 1. He is … Continue reading Breaking: New Director of Quaker House; And an Open Letter
The short answer: I don’t know . . . But. I have a test for deciding; I’ll get to that presently. This reflection was provoked in early December 2021, after two very smart women pundits whose work I take seriously, made opposite predictions about this. First, Jennifer Rubin, a Washington Post columnist. For years she … Continue reading Will there be a big backlash when Roe is thrown out?
I’ve said that when I was Director of Quaker House (2001-2012) I had the best Quaker job there is. But I didn’t always feel that way. In fact, my initial stance was emphatically the opposite. Now that the job is open again, it’s worth describing how and why that changed for me. This is a … Continue reading Quaker House, 9-11 and Me: Arguing With God