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  • “Real Politics, Anyone?” in Commonweal

    In a recent article in Commonweal titled “Real Politics, Anyone?” Margaret O’Brien Steinfels says to politicians what many of us are thinking: don’t focus your energy…

  • A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #47

    A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #47

    “Only one fear was greater than the fear of black rebellion in the new American colonies. That was the fear that discontented whites would join…

  • A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #46

    A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week #46

    “In the grown-up world, creative nonfiction is not expressive writing but rather communicative writing. And an axiom of communicative writing is that the reader does…

  • A nod to regional identity

    I tore this off the corner of page two in the Arts & Leisure section of the New York Times, on November 9. Amen, Tommy Lee!