Women’s History Month is a time to honor not only the women whose names appear in our textbooks, but also those whose courage helped define the very boundaries of a just democracy. One such figure... Read More

There is a growing lament across the American commentariat about a generation that, through no fault of its own, can no longer perform the basic rites of adulthood. Homeownership is out of reach, stable jobs... Read More

This semester, as I teach an online writing course at a Southern California community college, I keep asking: How do you truly engage students in a digital classroom? There are 26 students on my roster... Read More

I remember the first time I ever heard the word homosexual. I was in the first grade, and my mother and I were sitting in the living room watching “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” as we... Read More

Both the federal debt and climate change share a peculiar trait. They are almost invisible, right up until they are not. One day the bond market panics or Miami begins scheduling scuba lessons, and everyone... Read More

War in the Middle East is upon us again, it seems. Blame the many men in power in all of the countries involved. The world was taken by surprise when the United States and Israel... Read More

Children are not chattel. Nor are they “mere creatures of the state,” as the Supreme Court of the United States held in Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925). They are, in the humanist tradition, autonomous... Read More