It didn’t take a Secret Service visit this past spring to know (off-his) rocker Ted Nugent wasn’t really threatening President Obama when he declared he’d “either be dead or in jail by this time next year” if the President was re-elected. Actually, it’s more likely next year Nugent will just be playing another gig at
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
MARK HARRIS 