In light of the recent tragic violence in Aurora, Colorado, I would like to share the Op-Ed I wrote in the wake of the mass shooting at Northern Illinois University in 2008. It originally appeared under the title, “What Makes Someone a Campus Murderer?” in the Feb. 24, 2008 edition of The Pantagraph, the daily Lee Enterprises newspaper
The socialist movement in the United States has long been only a minority on the political scene. The influence of the movement and its ideas, however, is very much a part of American working class history. Those who have claimed Marx and Engels as their political mentors have played a significant role in the history
WITH MUSIC EDUCATOR DON CAMPBELL (1947-2012), AUTHOR OF ‘THE MOZART EFFECT’ (QUILL, 2001) In the old Laurel and Hardy movie, “Saps at Sea,” Oliver Hardy suffers from a stress-related disorder known as “hornophobia,” which turns him into a chest-pounding lunatic every time he hears a horn. This is unfortunate because Ollie works in a horn
WITH JOAN BORYSENKO, PhD, FOUNDER OF THE MIND-BODY CLINIC, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL It was the late 1950s and a new, experimental drug called Krebiozen was being heralded as a potential cancer cure. For one patient, however, it seemed that the drug had appeared too late to be of any benefit. The lymphoma had spread an
The thousands gathered in Chicago this past weekend to protest the NATO summit and the G8 meeting in Camp David are another sign we are in a new era of social activism. The Occupy movement is not going away. What is disappearing from the American landscape is the old passive acquiescence to an unjust status
MARK HARRIS 