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When I was a child, my mother (traditional Southern woman that she was) enrolled me in an etiquette class for children called "White Gloves and Party Manners." Bratty little Yankee know-it-all that I was (this being 1970 or so), I thought it was the most absurd waste of
racism
Having kids who are in middle school provides a painful reminder that many children go through a phase of being cruel to others. Working in higher education is a painful reminder that some don't outgrow it. Observing my own children's experience while watching surprisingly similar conflicts
GOP
I miss Ronald Reagan. Even his harshest critics must admit that he had an unflagging belief in the general goodness of the average human being, a commitment to the American experiment and faith in the ability of most people to make decisions in their own best interests without undue meddling
Donald Trump
There's a saying: "It takes a thief to catch a thief." A bit of a twist on this old saw quite accurately sums up the Donald Trump phenomenon. Fresh off of his strong Super Tuesday performance, Trump is forcing people to consider the very real possibility
rape
Last year, the Chronicle of Higher Education published yet another story under the headline, "Should colleges be judging rape?" This article, like many others, delved into the complexities of real and fabricated accusations, the need to balance protection of victims with due process for the accused, administrator'
America
It's January, and that means it's "Downton Abbey" season here in the States. The British television series has been an unprecedented success. A quick Wikipedia search reveals the dozens of awards that the series has been nominated for, and won (Golden Globes, Primetime Emmys,
Donald Trump
As 2015 comes to a close, the biggest story of the year is unquestionably the meteoric rise and mystifying (to some) staying power of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Despite numerous opinion pieces and analyses devoted to the phenomenon, it appears that neither the permanent political class nor the media
terrorism
After the horrific slaughter of nearly 3,000 people on 9/11, Americans were outraged. But that fury was directed outward; none of the perpetrators of those terrorist attacks had been an American citizen. Things are different now. The past few years have seen incident after incident abroad where attacks