Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

I've always felt differently about New Year's Eve than many other people do. In some ways, I see it as just another day of the year-...

To say the least, this has been a difficult few days. At Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, a lone gunman burst in, killing 2 stu...

As many of you know, I grew up in the 1950s. Some people today like to remember it as the 'good old days,' but that oversimplifies h...

I was reading my local newspaper the other day and came upon an article that really bothered me. It was about the president of the College R...

As I'm writing this, it's Halloween, and only 4 kids showed up at our house for Trick-or-Treat. The entire neighborhood has been str...

  Note: People who first saw this on several social media sites asked if I'd put it into my blog. Here it is.   It all started on Thursd...

What I remember about the incident was the outrage it inspired. A lot of people were really angry about what he said. People had loved his ...