Chris Honoré: 2017: The best and the rest
How to summarize what has been a year defined and dominated by the election of Donald Trump? In so many ways it’s been similar to driving slowly by a car accident, wishing not to look at the damage...
View ArticleChris Honore: When I must suspend my disbelief
As Donald Trump’s policies have unfolded over his first year in office, there’s a question that I find myself reflecting on continually: Is this what those 63 million Americans voted for? Is this the...
View ArticleChris Honoré: The president's 'Fake News Awards'
“The Post” is now screening at the Varsity Theatre and it is well worth seeing. I’m tempted to use the word mandatory in that sentence because I believe that our democracy’s institutions are under...
View ArticleChris Honoré: It’s the House, not the Senate
Take a step back and recall that in the fall of 2016 the American voters elected Donald Trump and, while in the voting booth, in all their wisdom, made known their wish that the House and Senate...
View ArticleChris Honoré: The Russians, the dossier and the memo
Part OneWe find ourselves in the middle of a morality play wherein the stakes are high and our nation’s institutions continue to be given what seems like a perpetual stress test.If you are following...
View ArticleChris Honoré: The Russians, the dossier and the memo
Part TwoI have to admit that trying to follow the memo/dossier/FISA warrants narrative has been at best a labyrinth.Let’s start with the memo. Its thesis, as far as I can determine, is that Nunes,...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Once again the sound of silence
I’m going to begin with the inexplicable presence of domestic violence that is woven into our culture and brought to the fore by recent events in the White House. And casting a wider net, I wonder how...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Gaslighting, Russia and guns
Gaslighting, according to Wikipedia, is a “form of manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in members of a targeted group (or individual), hoping to make them question their own perception,...
View ArticleChris Honoré: A dereliction of duty
There are a number of issues confronting our nation that are being ignored by our Congress and the White House. Regarding two, most especially, the question is: Why?A few brief examples: why do we as a...
View ArticleChris Honoré: A meme for the West Wing
On June 1, 2017, at 12:01 in the morning, Donald Trump tweeted the following: “Despite the constant negative press covfefe.” The word covfefe had his followers on Twitter and the press reaching for...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Deconstructing a Trump rally
On March 10, Donald Trump traveled to Moon Township in Pennsylvania to deliver a speech in support of Republican candidate Rick Saccone. Saccone’s opponent was Conor Lamb, a Democrat. This is a...
View ArticleChris Honoré: Collecting, then connecting the dots
So Robert Mueller and crew continue to collect dots and then painstakingly connect them. The data takes the investigators ever closer to the Oval Office and grows increasingly complex at a rate that is...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild: A second beginning
Immediately after the November 2016 election, I discontinued my weekly column for this newspaper. From writing Relocations I had derived pleasure, and from my readers encouragement. But Trump’s...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild: Who is the enemy?
Last May, on two consecutive Monday evenings, I viewed the six episodes of “A Force More Powerful,” a documentary about the efficacy of nonviolent direct action campaigns, which originally aired on PBS...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: How we really live
In my previous column I identified our oppressor as our culture, shaped by laissez-faire capitalism, which posits competition as our natural condition and the iron law of winners and losers. I urged us...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Is it a global free-for-all?
Last week I looked at driving our cars to test the validity of the pervasive assumptions of our culture — we compete with each other for the good things in life, and there must always be winners and...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: A frightening idea
If the mission of our military were to defend us from attack by hostile forces, it would be impossible to justify its present size, weaponry and deployment. Those are dictated primarily by the quest...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: Loyalty oath returns
When I was a teaching assistant at Harvard, I had to sign a loyalty oath. The same was true when I took a full-time position at LSU. This trademark of the McCarthy era had been deemed constitutional by...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: A class act
Among the numerous privileges with which I was endowed, being white and male were two. Helpful as they were, I don’t think they were determinative in smoothing my way to worldly success. After all,...
View ArticleHerb Rothschild Jr.: More on class and race
Reader unhappiness with last week’s column prompted some searching conversations. I’m pleased. When I get no pushback, I worry that, like MSNBC, I’m simply reinforcing your current opinions.My focus...
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