When somebody – be he a student, athlete, priest, doctor, friend, relative, federal judge who’s been nominated to the Supreme Court, etc. – counters a credible accusation of sexual assault with outraged proclamations of being smart, successful, rich, talented, well liked and an all-around good...
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I wrote this in 2015, before the #MeToo movement. It’s all the more relevant now as voice after voice — of both women and men — sound out in the lingering anguish of having been used as a thing. Like so many young college women,...
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. To my children,   I am sharing something with you both painful and personal for me, and the reason why is that I want to break the cycle of abuse, so you, and your children, never ever have experiences like this. Holding these experiences...
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  Steinbeck: The Untold Stories by Steve Hauk and illustrated by C. Kline SteinbeckNow.com, 2017, 172 pp. $12.95 paper Reviewed by Stephen Cooper Reflecting on “the soul of artists and writers,” nineteenth-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche observed that art “performs the task of preserving, even touching...
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I lived my entire life alone. It was always me and them. I found a woman and “I” became “we,” and thus it was us and them. It was much the same when we had children. There was us and there was everything else. We...
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I wish people understood a little bit more about what it meant to be adopted, what it means to be adopted. Ben  (Adoptionbeat.org Adoptees Gallery ) CNN’s picture essay (John McCain Memorial pictures on CNN) on Senator McCain’s funeral shows his wife and grown children...
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Above the din of disturbing news – that discordant banging you’re hearing, steadily getting louder and louder, that you can no longer ignore – that’s the drumbeat of the unfree. Dehumanized by the labels “prisoner,” “inmate,” and “convict,” even reduced to serial numbers like Victor...
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There was a time when I avoided all manner of politics and current events from the professional chattering classes. And today, I wake up and find out that Paul Manafort has been found guilty of numerous crimes. On top of that, President Trump’s attorney, Michael...
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