In the San Francisco Bay Area many years ago, I was once walking through an indoor suburban shopping mall south of the city. There from a distance I encountered the scene of a woman, two young children in tow, impulsively jamming an empty stroller into the side of the older child, a boy who looked
Author: Mark T. Harris
It was in 1947 that the poet W.H. Auden published his famous book-length poem, The Age of Anxiety, which a year later would win the Pulitzer Prize. After Nazism and a catastrophic world war, nuclear genocide in Japan, and the launch of the Cold War, it was no surprise that the term soon became a popular
[From the Archive]. This older article on right-wing media, just resurrected for my website, includes reference to the first Gulf War launched in 1990 by the first President Bush. Discussing the corrosive cultural impact of right-wing talk radio, the 2006 article is a reminder that the seeds for the present hate-filled, demagogic politics of the Trump
I first heard of the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano years ago from a Chicago associate, a medical editor for whom I had once worked. He was a generation ahead of me in age, a former monk with a taste for flea markets, literature, and theater. He actually wasn’t much interested in politics, beyond a general concern for human
The summer of 1969 is the family’s first back in the Chicago suburbs. To his dismay, the young man’s family has left lively and liberal Ann Arbor to return to the stodgy conservatism of Chicago’s western suburbs. He is 16 years old and entering his junior year of high school. He walks home from school
