Bear with the slow posting here, as I frantically revise and format the diss. over the next couple of weeks.
I do want to recommend, especially for any cinephiles or film studies folks out there, a new blog, co-authored by my friend Diana, called The Causeway Film and Video Forum. It’s devoted to film and […]
I find myself half in agreement with Jack Shafer’s call to get rid of Public Broadcasting, or more properly to stop government funding of public broadcasting.
The best remedy for this week’s public broadcasting crisis isn’t the dismantling of the "objectivity and balance" firewall but the abolishment of the CPB itself. Bureaucracies inevitably conform to […]
I’m wondering why news that Spain has legalized gay marriage hasn’t gotten more play here. Or even abroad; the Guardian hasn’t had too much coverage and even the normally on-top-of-it Fistful of Euros is silent.
Yes, the law faces a legal challenge and some opposition from conservatives even if, as the Economist notes (subsc. required), the […]
I’m a little shocked at the negative reactions to the results of the Civil Rights Project’s study of perceptions of discrimination in Boston. Some of our state’s white residents seem either angry that black residents perceive widespread racism and discrimination or else upset that those perceptions have been published. If you read their letters to […]