Category: Culture
Happy birthday to you… and, hopefully, not many more
I know a woman who is alive to see her great-great-great-great-great grandson. She’s 150 years old, which means she was born during the American Civil War. She had cancer in her early hundreds, but the...
5 Things Martin Luther King Teaches Me as a White Person
1. King’s Dream is inclusive White people are part of it, too. His Dream isn’t just for “the sons of former slaves”; it’s also for “the sons of former slave owners.” He foresaw a time...
The Speech that Came Before ‘I Have a Dream’
We’ve all heard Martin Luther King’s famous ‘I have a dream’ speech from the 1963 March on Washington. It’s still considered one of the greatest — if not the greatest — speech of the twentieth...
Martin Luther King’s Dream, an Object of Inception
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table...
How does America fit into the situation in Egypt?
This is the fourth post in a four-post series called Egypt: The Brotherhood, the Christians and the Americans. The first post lays out the major groups in Egypt. The second post looks at what’s next for...
Egypt’s Christians: Fellow pilgrims
This is the third post in a four-post series called Egypt: The Brotherhood, the Christians and the Americans. The first post lays out the major groups in Egypt. The second post looks at what’s next for the Muslim...
The Muslim Brotherhood: Then, now and into the future
This is the second post in a four-post series called Egypt: The Brotherhood, the Christians and the Americans. The first post lays out the major groups in Egypt. The second post looks at what’s next for...
Egypt is Complicated: A Political Map
This is the first post in a four-post series called Egypt: The Brotherhood, the Christians and the Americans. The first post lays out the major groups in Egypt. The second post looks at what’s next...
We’re trying as hard as we can to be alone
Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been conducting a little observational study on Chicago’s “L” trains. I wanted to know what, exactly, people do on the trains, because they’re certainly not talking to me. But seriously, I...
Two heroes have died: William Vande Kopple and Jean Bethke Elshtain
Within the span of about the last month, two of my very dear professors passed away. William Vande Kopple died July 3 and Jean Bethke Elshtain died this past Sunday, August 11. There’s not much...