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Random thoughts from a random thinker
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
I’m changing. I lived the first 73 years of my life as a white American in white America. A few months ago, I began to change. I’m becoming an American, just not ...
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IN PRAISE OF AT THE RIVER I STAND
Timing is everything and unfortunately, my timing on this is pretty bad. I’m writing to recommend to you At the River I Stand, a live-streamed reading of a new musical drama produced ...
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HOWARD
It was November 1972. I was a graduate student at The Catholic University of America, living on Capitol Hill, and had just fallen madly in love with the woman who would become ...
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WHAT CAN I DO?
In response to my essay last week, Lew asked how he, a retired white guy with minimal contact with Black people, can help promote racial justice. I gave a brief (for me) ...
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THE SHOWSTOPPER
As I’ve said before, I’ve become convinced that America’s problems around the issue of race must be solved by white people, because white people have the power and presumably will continue to ...
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THE APPRAISAL
It is time again for that occasional modern American ritual, the mortgage refinance. Interest rates seem to have plateaued, and the spread between available rates and my current mortgage once again makes ...
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MIXER
It was 1965, and I was a freshman at Wesleyan. In those days, the freshmen (all men) were housed in the dormitories on Foss Hill. Twenty-two guys lived on my floor, two ...
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CASTE, AND UNCOMFORTABLE CONVERSATIONS
The hot new book on the anti-racism scene is Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson. Ms. Wilkerson is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and National Book-Award-winning writer. I haven’t read the ...
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Mark Korber is a semi-retired curmudgeon who can’t quite stop practicing law. He is known to his friends to have an opinion on most anything and to express it, in detail, to anyone who shows the slightest interest. He writes about regionalism, Hartford, family and the Buffalo Bills.