There is, fortunately, a much better way for defenders of democracy and freedom fighters everywhere to make their liberty-loving presence known: tell the Saudi government to release all the women’s rights activists it has imprisoned on trumped-up charges.
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In honor of World Poetry Day Couplets for those who don’t betray The verse of stars, the vow […]
By John Kaufman PEN International is profiling four poets on World Poetry Day now being held either in […]
By John Frederick Kaufman Speaking of his poetry, here’s what Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who died yesterday in […]
By John Frederick Kaufman Fists and Flags “America first!” the president cried and raised his fist to […]
When the American novelist/essayist Marilynne Robinson sat down with President Obama for a chat on matters literary, religious […]
Yesterday, at a U.N. summit meeting on women’s rights hosted by, of all nations, China and its president, […]
Becoming Our Enemy Sometime we’ll have to risk Becoming our enemy. It will take some warming up, Eyes and […]
Torture and war are intimately related. Torture is a subset of war: brutality directed at an individual and […]
[A few lines for these times from Langston Hughes.] Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— […]
“Nonviolent resistance, at the very least, practices what it preaches.”
I’m breaking my summer silence once again to declare, for what it’s worth, my strong opposition– to the […]
