This Week 1/30
The tail end of January can be a tough time of year. It’s cold and gray. The rush of holidays is over, with nothing looming on the horizon except the […]
This Week 1/23
“If Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence,” my 7-year-old asked me the other day, “why did he have slaves himself?” The notion that “all men are created equal” was […]
This Week, 1/16
Nearly four weeks in, the federal government remains at a standstill over the president’s maniacal demand for $5.7 billion in American taxpayers’ dollars to erect a giant wall. But local […]
This Week 12/26
Before we turn the page on 2018, another tumultuous year, this issue takes a look back at what grabbed our attention over the last 12 months. Like the year itself, this […]
This Week: 12/19
Among the many Christmas rituals going on at this time of year is the Mexican tradition of las posadas (literally, “the inns”), which commemorates Mary and Joseph’s search for shelter […]
Editor’s note: Gone fishing
For the past three years, I have pictured you out there, The Reader, and written these weekly letters to you (this being the last one, I promise), even though I […]
Editor’s Note: Hello, goodbye
It’s kind of a cliché that any media person who comes to town has his eyes fixed on the Rotunda and the Mountain first. Apart from the novelty and force […]
Editor’s Note: Work and the ‘ville
This job brought me to town. I remember the process of circulating my resume three years ago, starting in early spring, a good time for changes, and winding up in […]
Editor’s Note: Om and the postmodern problem
I first encountered the om prayer in the pages of Rudyard Kipling’s British Colonial picaresque novel, Kim, in which the protagonist teams up with a wise and seemingly guileless Tibetan […]
Editor’s Note: History or his story?
“We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. . .” read Justice Earl Warren’s […]