Chris Honoré: Elie Wiesel 1928-2016
During this political season, there is a thread that runs through our presidential election and it involves those very personal qualities of character and values. Unlike so many elections in the past,...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Not in their self-interest
As President Obama’s final term in office draws to a close, I often find myself wondering how he feels about his two terms as our president.Recall that he inherited a train wreck of an economy, created...
View ArticleChris Honoré: The Republican platform, 2016
As I write this, the Republican convention awaits Donald Trump’s speech wherein he will accept his party’s nomination. His address will attempt to create cohesion for a fractured party marred by chaos...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Democrats — the party of Lincoln
In a column regarding the Republican platform I stated that the GOP is now no longer the party of Lincoln or Eisenhower, but the party of Goldwater and Nixon.After watching the Democratic convention...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Few profiles in courage
To say that the Republicans in their support of Donald Trump have entered into a Faustian bargain may be a bit hyperbolic, but I confess it feels like that.Over just the past several weeks they have...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Commentary
Part OneOf late I’ve been thinking of Elie Wiesel, who passed away this summer. He was 87.He spent his life bearing witness to an experience so horrific that it defies understanding and ultimately...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Is it possible Trump could win?
Someone asked me this morning, “You don’t think Trump will win, do you?” I found myself hesitating, not immediately responding with, “Absolutely not!” Finally, I said, “I just can’t imagine — not if...
View ArticleChris Honoré: ‘History doesn’t repeat itself’
Mark Twain once said that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Which led me to think of Donald Trump. We’ve seen his like before, an individual standing stage center practicing the art...
View ArticleAging Happens: It's not easy to unravel long-term care insurance tangle
Here’s a topic that might bore you half to death: long-term care (LTC) insurance. Unless, that is, you or someone you know is in their frailest years and have a need for expensive care. Now it might be...
View ArticleAging Happens: Four tips to help select your successor trustee
It’s great when people have made arrangements for their estate planning by setting up a will or a trust. Most people understand the importance of having these legal documents in place and reviewed with...
View ArticleAging Happens: Say what? Hearing loss could lead to behavior change?
Most people would say that other than being a nuisance, hearing loss is not that big of a deal. Read this data from the American Academy of Audiology (www.audiology.org) and see if it changes your...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Fletcher's mail
For the next four weeks I’ll be on vacation from this column and from fretting about the myriad ways our species betrays its wondrous capacity for love and creativity. As a prelude to lightheartedness,...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Peaceful patriotism
The Fourth of July prompts reflections on patriotism. We might discover something of worth if we can get past its association with war.The founders of our nation created something unprecedented: They...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: 'Remain,' reluctantly
While writing my July 2 column on patriotism, I knew I would follow it up with reflections on Brexit, Great Britain’s narrow vote to withdraw from the European Union. One reason is the Brexit debate...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: New developments
Most of the subjects of my column are ongoing concerns. They don’t go away just because I’ve had my say. So periodically I like to report relevant developments.Saudi Arabia: In my May 27 column I...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Different yardsticks
Last July I told you that I knew David Duke personally. He enrolled at LSU in fall 1968, three years after I joined the faculty and two years after I founded the local ACLU chapter. Several times he...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Tools of change
During this year’s commemoration of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one event focused on civil disobedience as a tool of social change. The program planners scheduled it because we had as a...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: A second movement
We’re now in the midst of a second civil rights movement. Just as the abolition movement ended slavery but not inequality for African Americans, so the first civil rights movement ended legal...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: The Gülen extradition
Although he’s been living in the U.S. since 1997, Muhammed Fethullah Gülen isn’t a household name here. He may soon become one. In the wake of the failed coup attempt in Turkey last month, President...
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