Who are the real Racists?
In the highly hostile, accusatory political environment of the present, the media is spreading the idea that racism in our country...
Same-Sex Marriage
The Supreme Court of the United States will soon address the fundamental issue of same-sex marriage and will probably rule that marriage...
What is the American Way?
The question that I pose concerns national identity as well as the identity of the individual American citizen. What does it mean, after...
A Fearful Nation
Rediscovering America: Blog4u4 As many of my readers know, my wife Susan and I had lived in Zurich, Switzerland before moving to the...
Lost in Space
When I was a student at the university, I frequented a small restaurant near the campus that was managed under the quaint name “Hi-Ho”....
The Eclipse of Power
No impartial observer can fail to recognize the similarities between the underlying mentalities of the extreme right-wing, militant...
Suis-je vraiment Charlie?
’Tis a strange world indeed where those of us who appreciate the literary style of Cicero, the poetic genius of Shakespeare and the...
The Legacy of the Sixties
In writing about the legacy of the 1960s, I must begin with a confession. During most of the 1960s, I was a university student, first in...
Spice and Thyme
There was a well-known German Lutheran theologian who was forced to emigrate from Germany to the United States in the 1930s because of...
Rediscovering America
Although I lived in Switzerland during most of my working career, I was actually born in the United States, to be specific, in Nashville,...
