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The big question, however, is the validity of the protest as communication. Is the current protest making any real headway in re-educating us, in giving us a new attitude toward war? Or is it simply an outlet for the indignation, the frustration and the anxiety of those who see that the war is irrational, but…

If you didn’t read my post on Sen. Biden’s blunder last week, you can read Sunday’s New York Times‘ version of it in an article, “The Racial Politics of Speaking Well.” Based on conversations with a number of black public figures that “elicited the kind of frustrated responses often uttered between blacks, but seldom shared…

E. Ethelbert Miller, who has been called “Washington D.C.’s unofficial poet laureate,” recently interviewed Melissa Tuckey, a poet and activist involved in DC Poets Against the War. (I was lucky to have a poem published in the first edition of their anthology.) I particularly like what Melissa says about the influence of war language on…

The latest news on Iraq, Iran, the budget, another candidate-Giuliani, and select Op-eds. Sign up to receive our daily news summary via e-mail » Full news summary: Budget. Bush Plan Reins In Domestic Spending – “President Bush took aim at domestic spending as part of a plan to balance the budget in five years without…
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