WATERGATE 06/13/2022 50 years ago this week, June 17, 1972, five men broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and touched off one of the greatest scandal in American politics: Watergate. In terms of sheer magnitude, no scandal before or after touched so many lives and brought to ruin so many political and …
When I was a senior in high school, we studied a poem about life in the city. The teacher adamantly stressed that the poem was an allegory about the American dream. Few in the class agreed with her opinion, but after all, she was the teacher, and she knew best. Well, it just …
A new school year has started, and so has the perennial debate about the suitability of any number of books. Too often, it seems, we believe in freedom of speech and press for ourselves, but not for others. The books I like are OK to read, but the books you like aren’t OK. …
7-19-21 Former CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite is reported to have said he knew he was doing a good job when everyone was mad at him If that sentiment is true, then Facebook must really be doing a great job. Everyone, it seems, is complaining about bias and misinformation on the social media site. For …
In George Orwell’s book “1984,” the government changes history by editing newspapers and encyclopedias to exclude people, places and things they no longer approve of. And back just a few years ago one of the major criticisms of the Communist system was its continual rewriting of history. It was not unusual for famous people to …
