American Athens

Of course, in giving up on my Week in Review after excerpting the columnists, I forgot what was likely the best piece in the paper this week — if not this year. In yesterday’s Globe, Michael Levenson and Susan Smalley wrote about 2005’s tremendous spike in homicides and a corresponding steep decline in arrests.
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I’m going to try to link to the best Globe Op-eds and Features from the ending week every Saturday morning (afternoon). You can expect that James Carroll, Robert Kuttner and the Ideas Section will always be here. Because no one reads the paper on Saturday mornings, it ends up being remarkably thin. That opens up […]

I’ll link to this because the good Rev. Dr. King is not only a personal hero, but also received his PhD from BU. Additionally, it helps prove that conservatives in 1959 couldn’t tell when wholesale social change was afoot, just like they couldn’t tell in 1932, 1964 and, so it seems, today. An excerpt of […]