Month: August 2005

I’m white. I grew up on a multi-racial block in St. Paul, Minnesota that had recently seen all but two of its white families with children move out.  My friends were black, my immediate neighbors were black, my...

[Note: I’m posting this upon my arrival home in Somerville, but I wrote it last night in the Vancouver airport.  I’m not changing the tense of the piece because I want to retain the immediacy of what I was...

cross-posted at The European Tribune Today, in a Havana hospital, one of the great Cuban musicians in the Son and bolero tradition, Ibrahim Ferrer, died due to gastroenteritis at age 78. If you don’t happen to know of his...

Frontpaged at My Left Wing. Part 2  in a series based on the entry for Liberalism in the Dictionary of the History of Ideas. In the introductory diary, I made a series of big points. In this two-part entry, there is really...

What an astonishing leap for a career “prosecutor’s prosecutor” — as Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called James B. Comey back during his October 29, 2003 confirmation hearings. Newsweek’s Periscope...