Category: A moment in time

I write this sitting on the steps of The Big House, near the Northeast entrance of Crisler Center. Three flags hang on three poles: the United States, Michigan, and the University. History was meant to bring the three together tonight not too far from where I sit. The site of the original second presidential debate…

Of the now 471 confirmed cases of Ebola in the war torn Democratic Republic of Congo, 27 have been children under the age of one. Of those only half a dozen are still alive. Nine were less than one month old. It is thought that children under the age of 14 (fully one-quarter of the…

As the aspirations of those politically inclined once again seek to ride emergent currents of popular thought to positions of power, let us for a moment take a look at a single parenthetical sentence in a single obscure document from a single side of a story from the several larger dramas of culture, climate, politics,…