Culture War

States are banning books to appease the complaints of sad, narrow-minded and perverted bigots. The perverted bigots are losing their sad and narrow little minds because they are losing the future and they know it. They are freaked out and dangerous, because they know there are more of us than…

On the day the Brexit vote was declared; I remarked to a colleague that we had had an outbreak of national insanity. It was always going to be a bad thing for Britain and worst for the poorest in society who were often the strongest Brexiteers. …

As we lie in bed nursing our battered and depleted psyches, we are grateful for the rich world of reading we can readily avail of for our needed rest and relief. Professed bookworms and curious nerds, reading is a love instilled in us early on, that has grown us into…

The fire of hatred devours everything in its path — As far as this crazy authoritarianism being forced on the country right now by an ever-growing fringe element of extreme conservatives, I’ve already been there, done that, gotten the t-shirt, and that’s why I’m scared. Instead of keeping their noses clean, Evangelical Christians have jumped on this bandwagon en masse…

Terry H. Schwadron May 26, 2023 By now, the successful one-parent challenge to remove Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem-book, The Hill We Climb, from elementary schools in Miami-Dade County in Florida have been chewed and processed as wild, upsetting excess of a MAGA-led revolt against reason and access to ideas. Even…

I cannot count how many times in the past month that I have taken a deep breath and thought really hard about suspending my social media and taking a break from the news. As a Christian minister who really just wants to see the world come together for peace and…

Why I’m not Ashamed to Call Myself a Midwesterner In this life, there are of course an abundance of things to be either saddened by and or angered by, but few if any items left to be happy about. And I say this from my own personal experience, not fully…

Sunder returns to the podcast to talk about his new book, ‘How to Be a Patriot’. Listen on Podbean, Spotify and Itunes.

Terry H. Schwadron May 23, 2023 The push and pull over who’s telling the stories of our times, how we experience it and what issues we might consider as a result are spiraling. A recent Washington Post column reflected as much concern about these times of heightened sensitivity as her…