Few windows into today's higher education leadership were as shocking as the testimony of three distinguished university presidents (from Harvard, Penn and MIT) before the star chamber hearing of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce last month. In their obtuse, overly lawyered statements on anti-Semitism on their respective campuses, they wrapped themselves in a …
Continue reading Harvard president gone – for the right reasons
For decades, a generation of students, often protected by their parents from information and views that might disturb them, arrived on college campuses demanding that administrators continue to protect them from feeling hurt by uncomfortable ideas or stressed by robust discussions of the harsh realities of a complex world. They called out microaggressions and insisted on trigger …
Continue reading Student embrace of Hamas – willfully ignorant and antiSemitic
Mea culpa. On December 4, this very blog expressed the sense that Boston Mayor Tom Menino should hang it up. Quit while he was ahead. Yield to diminished physical capacity and rest on his laurels. Accept congratulations for all he has done for Boston and ride off, if not in the sunset, at least to …
Disclaimer: proceed at your own risk. The following observation of an emerging political figure is through the eyes of one who has known him affectionately since he was a little boy. Notwithstanding the personal connection, I really do see him as a potentially great voice of the next generation. Joey Goodwin, oops, he is now …
Continue reading The torch has passed: Joe Kearns Goodwin launches bid for state senate
Marjorie Arons-Barron 