Author: MassCommons

There’s a power in history that grounds itself in one small place.  That power hits you immediately in Robert Engs’ terse foreword to Cassandra Newby-Alexander’s An African American History Of The Civil...

Don’t read E. J. Graff’s new column, “What Straight Allies Need To Understand about Gay Marriage and States’ Rights”, because she’s longtime lesbian activist.  Don’t read it because...

“Do I believe in evolution?  Heck, I’ve seen it with my own two eyes!” Periodically—usually when the Texas Board of Education is reviewing textbook standards, or when evangelical conservatives...

One spring afternoon about 50 years ago, the Boston Celtics’ locker room was quiet and tense before a deciding Game 7 of a playoff series.  This was in the days when professional basketball was seasonal work, teams...

Professor Alan Wolfe has firmly planted himself on the left wing of American politics for his entire adult life.  However, as befits a Jewish atheist running a center for “religion and American public life” at...