Torture: A modest (satirical) proposal
Advice to readers: Read all the way to the end! I have expended a lot of energy condemning torture. Not because of the efficacy argument
January 30, 2015
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Commercializing the Christmas Truce: Spinning Hay into Dollars
Artist Robert Shetterly reflects on the commercialization of the Christmas Truce of 1914.
January 30, 2015
The Myth of Accountability and the Death of Michael Brown
“The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”— Henry David Thoreau I remember the hilarity
November 29, 2014
A Symphony of Courageous Action
AWTT education director Connie Carter reflects on her afternoon at the symphony.
October 20, 2014
Nature’s Common Core: Why Rachel Carson should be taught in schools
This is what you shall do: love the earth and the sun and the animals . . . – Walt Whitman Rachel Carson wrote Silent
August 13, 2014
Contemplating Logic
When I play with my grandson, we suspend the logic of reality. Toy dump trucks fly, giraffes talk with polar bears, gravity is a joke,
July 23, 2014
A Sigh Heard Round the World
How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every blackning Church appalls, And the hapless Soldiers sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls.— William Blake, London A friend asked
June 24, 2014
Wailing at the Separation Wall
You have what you desire: the new Rome, the Sparta of Technology and the ideology of madness.–Mahmoud Darwish I returned a few days ago from
May 30, 2014
Education, Shirley Chisholm, a Postage Stamp, Hope and AWTT
Artist Robert Shetterly learns a discouraging lesson from kids, who don’t know who Shirley Chisolm was.
May 28, 2014