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Jimmy Carter. A Great American. A Great Christian. He Never Gave Up

05 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textJane and I met Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter once, but I think we, and other Americans, knew him long before that.  These are my reflection...

Ukraine War. Reposting from February, 2022 (I had not listened to this for a year. I learned some things. Thanks for doing it, Ron. You're welcome, Ron)

24 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textBackground to the Ukraine War.  Observations from February 24, 2022This war will not end with the defeat of the Russian army or with Vl...

Eichmann in Jerusalem. Reposting on the 60th anniversary of its publication.

21 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textSixty years ago, the New Yorker published a long analytical essay on the Eichmann trial by the famous intellectual Hannah Arendt.  It b...

The Case for Caution: Why we Should NOT Invade Iraq. A talk from 2002. (Raises some good, long term issues).

11 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textDuring the lead up to the Iraq War of 2003 I was very active in raising concerns about why this would be a bad decision.  I was intervi...

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The Lebanon War of 1982: How Our Leaders Saw it. (Not a parody but at times sounds like one).

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textSeveral top American leaders wrote their memoirs about this war.  Ordinarily we assume that our leaders, those giants who hold the top ...

Kennedy School Rejects HRW Head over Apartheid Report. Reposting: Is Israel an Apartheid State? Please read text below.

21 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textKennedy School Rejects HRW Head over Apartheid Report.  When Kenneth Roth retired as head of Human Rights Watch he was invited to join...

Explaining Hitler. Ten Famous Scholars Debate the Issues (Sometimes with heated words)

14 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textRon Rosenbaum published a book in 1998 discussing how 13 major scholars (and a score of lesser scholars) explained Hitler.  Who was Hit...

Three Catholic Stories: A Female Pope (which the Vatican denies), My Run for Pope (which the Vatican denies), and Spotlight (which the Vatican wishes would go away).

01 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textNow that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has passed on, it is time for me to post the story of the time I ran for pope.  The Vatican and I h...

Impeachment for Insurrection: The Second Trial of Donald J. Trump. A reposting

21 Dec 2022

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Send us a textAn impeachment is not the same as a criminal trial, which may be what Donald Trump is facing,  given that the January 6 Committee has r...

The Nine Commandments. (But I thought there were Ten?) This is really interesting.

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textThis is an unusual podcast.  It is s summary of a lecture delivered some years ago by the head, i.e., editor, of the Anchor Bible Proje...

When Ron Met Jane. Courtship in the Stone Age. A 60th Anniversary Story

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textIn late December,  Jane and I will celebrate our 60th Wedding Anniversary.  Ten years ago, we celebrated our 50th anniversary by takin...

Books on Religion That You Will be Glad you Read

05 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textA year ago, I made a list of books on religion that I found very engaging when I read then.  I wanted to share those with you, but it t...

Invitation to a Zoom Discussion, December 3, 2022 12:00-1:00 (Eastern Time). Details attached.

25 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textPodcast Zoom ChatWould anyone out there like to have a Chat?  My friend and my wife thought this might be a good idea.  After all, I h...

A Matter of Honor. An Incident in the Damascus Souk

16 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textBack in the 1990s I took high school seniors from around the country to the Middle East for a month of visitation and discussion.  We w...

The Return of Netanyahu and the Rise of the Israeli Hard Right. A Reposting on Kahanist Thinking

02 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textNetanyahu has apparently come back from the dead.  As of today (November 2, 2022) he is expected to form an exceptionally hard right go...

Four Fun Stories, two about Halloween. Including the legendary story of Gato, King of the Cats. (A reposting, just for fun).

30 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

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Why the President's Party Loses Seats in the Off-Year Election, and why the pattern doesn't always hold. Political Analysis plus some comments. (How could I not?)

26 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textThis is a well-known pattern in electoral studies:  That the President's party loses seats in the House in the off-year election. ...

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The Palestinian Intifada of 1987-1993. Reposting. A parallel with Iran 2022?

09 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textWith the protests in Iran escalating, I am beginning to see some structural and political parralels with the first Palestinian Intifada ...

Is Christianity Polytheistic? Uh ... Interesting question. Sit down. Have some coffee. Let's Talk

01 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textI have been running this podcast over in my mind for twenty plus years, well before I even knew what a podcast was.  It started when a ...

Eight Things About the Holocaust. Reposting of a Podcast

18 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textKen Burns has a documentary on the Holocaust starting tonight (September 18) on PBS. His focus is on US policy rather than upon the Hol...

Kahan Commission Report on the Sabra and Shatilla Massacre: Reposting of an earlier podcast

16 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textStarting on September 16, 1982 and extending over three days, right wing Christian militia forces went into the Sabra and Shatilla camps...

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Lebanon War of 1982. The War That Never Stopped

10 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textThis is a difficult topic.  In my classes I had quite a few Lebanese students, mostly Shia but some Maronite Catholics, and a few Sunni...

Understanding the Americans. A Talk With Some Members of the German Bundestag.

30 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textBack in 2003 Jane and I were in Berlin visiting our friend Sibylle Laurischk.  Sibylle was a member of the Bundestag, the German parlia...

Why Kill Salman Rushdie Over a Book? A Reposting (but worth your time)

13 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textOn August 12, 2022 there was an attempted assassination of the world-class author Salman Rushdie.  Rushdie had twice won the Booker Pri...

Mark Twain's autobiography, and The Dog as Beautiful as a Girl

31 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textA few years ago Jane and I were in Hannibal, the home town of Mark Twain.  We did all the touristy stuff -- the Becky Thatcher house, t...

Is Israel an Apartheid State? What does that term mean, and what difference would it make?

16 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textI am an academic, not an activist.  Maybe I should be an activist, but I am not. In recent months (this is July 2022) the word aparthei...

Origins of Islam: Mohammed and the Koran

08 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a text This is a class lecture delivered near the end of the semester.  We had spent three months discussing different religious traditions ...

Three Detroit Area Gravestones (of really interesting people).

24 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textThis is a discussion of the gravestones of three really interesting people buried in the Detroit area.  One was a nationally famous rad...

The Most Famous Public Opinion Study. How We Analyze Voting Behavior (and why people don't move around much).

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textThis was a class lecture on the most famous voting behavior study ever done, showing how certain variables connect to other variables to...

Memorial Day 2022: Reflections during a Difficult Time. .

29 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textJust two hours ago, I decided to do a podcast on Memorial Day.  As someone who grew up with strong patriotic impulses, it has been a su...

The Origins Of Public Opinion Research

25 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textPublic Opinion did not emerge Full-Blown from some father's head (to borrow from Greek mythology). In fact, the very concept of pu...

Is Roe v Wade Doomed? The Leaked Alito Decision

09 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textOn May 2, 2022, the draft In 1973 the Supreme Court handed down its stunning decision, Roe v Wade, decriminalizing abortion and declari...

Background to Islam: Not What You Think.

07 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textThis is a multi-part lecture I delivered to students in my class on Religion and Politics.  This focuses on the context within which Is...

Liberation Theology: How Individuals became radicalized. The cases of Archbishop Romero and Che Guevara

24 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textWe often assume that radicalism emerges from radical texts.  Someone reads the text and becomes a radical.  But sometimes it grows fro...

Liberation Theology: The Political Background in Latin America, especially the role of US involvement in radicalizing the region.

24 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textThis is part I of a two part talk.  Part I deals with the political background to Liberation Theology, especially the role of US involv...

Legendary Dearborn Mayor Orville Hubbard: Controversial, destructive, creative, racist.

15 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textOrville Hubbard:  His Life and CareerThis is based on a zoom talk I did with Community Conversations, a social activist group associate...

Populorum Progressio. A papal encyclical renouncing the International Imperialism of Money; declaring that property ownership is not inviolate, and questioning whether free trade is consistent with Christian principles. .

30 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textPopulorum Progressio, Pope Paul VI, 1967This was a class lecture, delivered in late 2020.  (Sorry for the occasional distractions)  It...

Is Anti-Zionism a form of Anti-Semitism? And what do those terms mean anyway?

18 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textBack in 2019 I was asked by the Jewish News of Detroit to write some thoughts on whether Anti-Zionism was a form of Anti-Semitism.  Pre...

Liberation Theology: Peruvian Theologian Gustavo Gutierrez and the Social Factor

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textThis was a class lecture.  It discusses Father Gustavo Gutierrez and the concept of liberation theology.  Most theology comes down fro...

The Ukraine War of 2022: More Nuance and Insight than the News

24 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textBackground to the Ukraine War of 2022Back in 2008 there was a crisis in Ukraine.  It led to the separation of two regions from Ukraine,...

Liberation Theology: Some Theological Themes

22 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textLiberation Theology was strong in the 1960s and 1970s and 1980s.  It was mostly Catholic, and was concentrated in Latin America, but th...

Valentine's Day: A Mushy Three Minute Love Story

13 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textThis is for lovers, for aspiring lovers, and for those who (to quote an old song) gambled for love in the moonlight,  but lost. And if...

Is Whoopi Goldberg Black? Are Jews White? What do we mean by Race? And why did Whoopi get Suspended from The View?

11 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textOn February 1, 2022 Whoopi Goldberg got a two week suspension from The View, the early morning women’s talk show that she hosts.  It ...

A Year of Podcasting. First Anniversary Report to Listeners.

06 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textOn February 6,2021 I posted my first podcast.  As of the morning of February 6, 2022) I have 26,001 downloads in 106 countries and 1,98...

RIP F. W. De Klerk, the Last White President of South Africa. And the Logic of Apartheid.

24 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textF. W. DeKlerk, the last White President of South Africa. The Logic of Apartheid, and how De Klerk’s perspective evolved F. W. De Kle...

John Paul II. A Legendary Pope

15 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textJohn Paul IIJohn Paul II was one of the great popes.  He is now a saint.  As a saint, that means he has  intercessory power.  Indivi...

How Democracies Die. Understanding the Insurrection of January 6, 2021

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textThe Insurrection of 2021, An Anniversary PodcastOn January 6, 2021 there was an attempt by an insurrectionist mob to block the certifica...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu. the Moral Giant, who created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

27 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textArchbishop Desmond Tutu was one of the three indispensable people whose actions saved South Africa from a violent transition when that c...

A Christmas Gift For You. The Story of The Rudolph Song. With Commentary

24 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textThis is the story of the song  Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and how it came to be, with some commentary along the way by me.  I hope...

Christmas Songs: Who? What? When? Where? Why?

21 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textChristmas Songs:  Who?  What?  When? Where? This is a discussion of the fifty-one most popular Christmas songs, when they were writt...

Vatican II: The Catholic Church Transformed

17 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textWhen John XXIII became pope in 1958, he was a compromise choice.  The powerful cardinals who wanted the job figured they could choose t...

Roe v Wade. The Mississippi Challenge Now Before the Supreme Court

06 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a text  On December 1, 2021 the Supreme Court heard arguments on the Mississippi law that would effectively gut Roe vs Wade, the 1973 decisi...

Closing a Church. A unique and significant Dearborn congregation doing things no other congregation was doing.

22 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a texting a Church Littlefield Avenue Presbyterian congregation has existed for 91 years.  On November 21, 2021 we closed the church buildin...

From the Other Side of the Desk. Stories of Memorable Students.

21 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textMemorable Students Did you ever wonder how life looks from the other side of the desk?  This is your chance to find out. During my la...

Biography of a Graveyard. What you can learn from 829 gravestones dating back 16 decades.

14 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textBiography of a Graveyard Back in 2001 I had just published a book and had no projects on my plate.  I decided to use part of my summer...

Religion And Politics 11. Rerum Novarum. The 1891 Papal Encyclical that Pulled the Church into the Modern Age.

07 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textRerum NovarumFor those of you who are Catholics, I have bad news for you.  There was a time in the 1800s when your church went over the...

Why Sexual Misconduct Investigations Go Wrong (Please read the introduction)

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textSome decades ago, I was involved in a church that had a destructive conflict.  Congregational and regional officials mismanaged the con...

General Colin Powell. Some Reflections and Thoughts

18 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textGeneral Powell was one of the great men of his age.  He could have been President. He made one serious mistake in his career and it ta...

Four Fun Stories. Two about Halloween

15 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textThese are four stories, just for fun. I call themBad Hair DayCrazy Lady on the PhoneA Halloween MisadventureGato's HalloweenThe st...

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 22. Suppressing Dissent.

12 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textSuppressing Dissent                              This is not an easy topic.  It was a lecture delivered to my class on ...

Religion and Politics 10. How a Pope is Elected

06 Oct 2021

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Send us a textHow a Pope is Elected   This is a discussion of a papal election, with special attention to the election of John Paul II.   This was ...

Why are Darwin and Evolution So Controversial and So Politicized in the US?

29 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textThis podcast has two parts.  The first part is a discussion of the Scopes Trial of 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee.  Tennessee had passed a ...

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 21. The Palestinian Refugees of 1948. A Detailed Briefing. Third podcast of three on the Palestine War of 1948.

22 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textThe Palestinian Refugees of 1948This is an extremely important topic surrounded by false narratives and inflammatory rhetoric.  I have ...

Hannah Arendt. A Great Intellectual and a Controversial Woman. (Suggestion: Watch the movie, Read the book).

16 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textHannah Arendt was one of the great intellectuals of the twentieth century.  She was a German Jew.   Some of her books were targeted to...

September 11. Part II. After 9/11. A Talk to the Campus. A Talk to the Archdiocese. Reactions.

09 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textSeptember II.  Part two.  September 13. This is podcast two on the topic of September 11.  The first podcast focused on the day itse...

September 11. Recollections and Reflections from That Day in 2001

08 Sep 2021

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Send us a textSeptember 11.  Recollections and Reflections from 2001  Back in 2001 I was keeping a journal.  These are some things I recorded on on...

Religion and Politics 9: Abram Leon. A Marxian Analysis of The Jewish Question

06 Sep 2021

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Send us a textAbram Leon, The Jewish Question. Abram Leon was a Jewish intellectual and activist.  He was a Marxist of the Trotskyite tendency.  He...

The Israel Lobby and U. S. Foreign Policy. Introducing Mearsheimer and Walt, Two of America's Premier Strategic Thinkers

02 Sep 2021

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Send us a textThe Israel Lobby and U. S. Foreign Policy Back in 2007 two of America's great strategic thinkers wrote a book entitled The Israel ...

An English Vacation in the Lake District: Meeting the Queen (well, almost), Visiting Wordsworth's Grave and a Stone Circle, and Climbing The Mighty Helvelyn

01 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textThis podcast is just for fun.  It is about a vacation we took in England, in the Lake District.  We went with our dear German friend, ...

Afghanistan: A Background Briefing

26 Aug 2021

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Send us a textAfghanistan:  A Background Briefing This is the first podcast Briefing, focusing upon something in the headlines.  I would often do b...

Religion and Politics 8. Marx on Religion. Not What You Think

24 Aug 2021

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Send us a textMarx on Religion  In my class on Religion and Politics, I had three lectures on the Marxian model.  One was on Marx’s view of religi...

A Black President. Thoughts the Day After Obama's Election, 2008.

15 Aug 2021

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Send us a textReflections on Obama’s Election.  The Day AfterFor someone of my generation, it was hard to believe that we would ever have a Black P...

The Satanic Verses: Salman Rushdie, Ayatollah Khomeini, and the Fatwa to Kill Rushdie

09 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textSatanic Verses by Salman RushdieSalman Rushdie is one of the great English language literary figures.  He has won the Brooker Prize for...

Six Months and Counting. A Report to Podcast Listeners

06 Aug 2021

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Send us a textSix Months of Stocktonafterclass, and Counting.August 6, 2021 is the six month anniversary of the beginning of this podcast series.  Th...

Gilead. My Favorite Novel. Suggestion: Listen to the podcast, then read the book.

02 Aug 2021

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Send us a textMy favorite novel is Gilead by Marilynn Robinson.  It is up there in my pantheon with Les Miserables and Spoon River Anthology by Edgar...

Black Political Leaders. A Profile of Nine Different Personalities and Nine Different Styles

29 Jul 2021

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Send us a textBlack Political Leaders                     There are two talks on Black leadership, one on Political Leaders, one on Intelle...

When Ron met Jane. A Story of Courtship in the 1960s

25 Jul 2021

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Send us a textWhen our 50th anniversary rolled around, I decided to write up a reflection on how we came to become a couple.  That occurred back in t...

Religion and Politics 7. Osama bin Laden's 1996 Declaration of War on the United States.

20 Jul 2021

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Send us a textOsama issued two declarations of war on the United States, one in 1996 and one in 1998.  The one in 1996 was more lengthy and more fill...

Israeli-Palestine Conflict 20: The Holocaust. Eight Key Points

14 Jul 2021

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Send us a textThe Holocaust was an effort by the Nazi government to exterminate the total Jewish population of Europe.  It is a form of genocide but ...

Religion and Politics 6. The Catholic Church. Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask. .

09 Jul 2021

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Send us a textBackground to Catholicism.  Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask.This is an introduction to the Catholic Church.  We s...

Black Intellectual Leaders

06 Jul 2021

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Send us a textBlack Intellectual leaders .   Because I think race is the single most critical and most divisive issue in American politics, I always...

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 19. Paradigm Lost by Ian Lustick. Why Israel threw away the possibility of a Two-State Solution.

01 Jul 2021

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Send us a textIan Lustick is a prominent political scientist at the University of Pennsylvania.  He is known for his analysis of intractable conflict...

Religion and Politics 5. Background to Osama bin Laden and his Declaration of War on the U. S.

26 Jun 2021

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Send us a textThis is part one of a two part lecture on Osama bin Laden. Part Two  will focus on his Declaration of War on the United States (1996). ...

Pete Seeger, one of the great protest singers, and what happened when he sang "Knee Deep in The Big Muddy" on national television just after the Tet Offensive

21 Jun 2021

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Send us a textPete Seeger was one of the great social justice protest singers.  His songs ("If I had a hammer" for example) were legendary....

Religion and Politics 4. The Book of Daniel. A Biblical Critique of Religious Uprisings.

18 Jun 2021

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Send us a textThe Book of Daniel was written about the same time as Maccabees II.  It would be best to listen to the Maccabees podcast before this on...

Religion and Politics 3. The Maccabees Uprising

12 Jun 2021

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Send us a textThe Maccabees Uprising . 167-160 B. C. In my class on Religion and Politics I had students study two uprisings rooted in religious comm...

How to Write. Lessons Learned Along the Way

09 Jun 2021

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Send us a textSomehow I went from being an 18-year-old writing instructor’s nightmare to a being a good writer.  There were a lot of steps along th...

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 18. Beirut's Sabra and Shatilla Massacre. Israel's Kahan Commission Report

06 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Send us a textIn September, 1982, during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon,  the Israeli army took control  of West Beirut and the Palestinian refugee...

Lincoln's Greatest Speech. The Second Inaugural

06 Jun 2021

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Send us a textAbraham Lincoln delivered two speeches that are considered among the greatest ever delivered.  One was the Gettysburg Address and one w...

General William Westmoreland, U. S. Commander in Vietnam, 1964-1966.

28 May 2021

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Send us a textIn 1986 General Westmoreland visited the University of Michigan-Dearborn.  He had three events during the day.  One was a meeting with...

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 17. The Israeli Hard Right. the Kahanist Model

19 May 2021

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Send us a textThere are extremist group in Israel, even in the Knesset,  that trace their origins to Rabbi Meir Kahane.  Kahane was born in Brooklyn...

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 16. Al Aqsa Intifada, 2000-2005. The logic of violence, the impact of violence.

16 May 2021

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Send us a textAl Aqsa Intifada.  The Logic of Violence, the Impact of Violence.  There were two Intifadas. The first began in December, 1987. The s...

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 15. The First Intifada, 1988-1993.

16 May 2021

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Send us a textThe word Intifada (sometimes Intifadah) means uprising.  More specifically it means “shaking off,” but uprising is close enough.  ...

Israeli-Palestine Conflict 13. The Black Swan Scenario. An End of the Conflict?

13 May 2021

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Send us a textOne morning we woke up and Soviet Union was gone.  None of us saw this coming. When I started teaching in the 1970s, I told students t...

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 12. The Palestine War of 1948. What happened after the War?

13 May 2021

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Send us a textWhat happened after the armistice in January of 1949?  Of course, the major consequence was the Palestinian refugees.  Thinking only o...

The Concept of Genocide: Armenians, Jews, Tutsis and others.

08 May 2021

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Send us a textOn April 24, 2021 President Biden used the word “genocide” to describe what happened to the Armenians of Turkey.  Whether to use th...

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 11. The Palestine War of 1948. Israel created, Palestine erased.

06 May 2021

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Send us a textIn 1948 the Jewish forces in Palestine declared themselves to be the state of Israel.  The Israelis joyously call this their independen...

Pandemic Orientation: A Talk to my Students about finding Meaning in an Age of Pandemic

04 May 2021

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Send us a textWhen the pandemic hit in March 2020, we could handle it. Live classes were cancelled but faculty made audio talks to share with students...

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 11. Public Opinion on Jews and Arabs and Muslims

28 Apr 2021

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Send us a textThis is a discussion of public opinion, focusing upon scientific survey research studies.   Some of the findings are a bit surprising. ...

The Replacement Wars. The Ideology of Apocalyptic White Nationalism, Part Two

21 Apr 2021

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Send us a textThis is Part Two of my discussion of  The Replacement Wars.  This is a worldview that began in Europe but has spread to the US and is ...