Patrick Parr
Patrick Parr writes for The Humanist and The Japan Times, among other outlets. His biography about Martin Luther King Jr.’s young adult years will appear in early 2018. www.patrickparr.com
Posts by Patrick Parr
An International Reaction to Donald Trump’s Immigrant Ban
“In a real sense all life is interrelated. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of... Read More
Book Review: Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O’Reilly
In a way Bill O’Reilly is a literary version of Donald Trump—a man hell-bent on justifying his intellect by rehashing history while digging only... Read More
Barbara McClintock (1902-1992): Fighting the Male Establishment
“There was not that strong necessity for a personal attachment to anybody…I just didn’t feel it. And I could never understand marriage…I never went... Read More
Eight Reasons Darwin Almost Didn’t Board the HMS Beagle
For Charles Darwin, it was an invitation from his former Cambridge mentor J.S. Henslow that would change his life. Up until that time, Darwin... Read More
Robert Louis Stevenson Says No to Religion
ON THE NIGHT of January 30, 1873, in his home at 17 Heriot Row in Edinburgh, Scotland, Robert Louis Stevenson told his parents that... Read More
James Baldwin Battles Humanity
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught... Read More
Kurt Vonnegut Survives Humanity
IN HIS EIGHTY-FIVE spins around the sun, Kurt Vonnegut managed to make people smile about the darkest aspects of the human condition. One of... Read More