Day in and day out, my wife prayed for my health and for my continued presence on this earth. Her brother Joe and his wife Martha, who attended a Catholic church, St. John’s of Vianney, had organized thirty Hispanic men, women and children, including my nieces, to pray for me too. There were others. Every [...]
Back in July, Media Matters scolded conservative columnists George Will and Mark Steyn for making “false claims” about global warming:
In his July 23 Washington Post column, George Will repeated National Review Online columnist Mark Steyn’s false claim that “[i]f you’re 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you’re graduating [...]
One of the most depressing moments of my own political life came when I was given a Ph.D. thesis to read whose subject was the intellectual influences on American policy makers. In 1979, when the Sandinista Marxists staged a coup against the democratic members of Nicaragua’s revolutionary “junta” and established a pro-Soviet, Marxist dictatorship in [...]
EDUCATION BA English l96l (cum laude) UC Berkeley. MA English l963 UC Berkeley. TEACHING l963-69–Instructor in Freshman English, UC Berkeley. l966–Instructor in English, University of San Francisco. l964–Professor of English, Miles College, Birmingham, Alabama. l967–Instructor in Sociology, UC Santa Cruz. l977-83–Visiting Writer, UC Berkeley. EDITORIAL 1967-73–Editor, Ramparts Magazine l982-85–Consulting Editor, California Magazine 1992-2000—Editor, Heterodoxy ADMINISTRATIVE 1986-91—Co-director, Second Thoughts [...]
