Archive for May, 2012

The timing was indicative. On the very day that Mitt Romney officially clinched the GOP presidential nomination, he brought Donald Trump to his side in Las Vegas. This is the latest signal that

“There is no such thing as a good war, or a bad peace” – Benjamin Franklin. The stunning confluence of events that occurred on the weekend of June 27, 1969 – Life’s

A subtle but decisive shift going on in the political dialogue of the current election year. It pertains not to government policy or political personalities, but operates on a deeper level, the

There’s no coincidence that the modern gay liberation movement, that which associates its founding with the riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York’s Greenwich Village in late June

Much is contained in Christopher Isherwood’s classic memoir, “Christopher and His Kind” (1976), which speaks directly to the matters of gay identity and purpose that have been the

It is an astonishing fact that the total volume of student loan debt in America is greater than the totality of mortgage debt. This fact surfaced in the context of the recent Congressional debate,

It is one of the incomparable blessings of the modern gay liberation movement, leading up to and following the Stonewall riots moment in 1969, that it both enabled and compelled two of the greatest

As Princeton University professor Jonathan Israel documents with enormous detail in his latest tome, Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution and Human Rights, 1750-1790 (Oxford University

Every once in awhile, there’s something someone says on one of the Sunday morning blab shows that makes you sit up and take notice, to make a mental note that you must print out the

In a century defined by the most savage of brutal wars and genocides, among those things that legendary gay writers Tennessee Williams and Christopher Isherwood held in common were their pacifist