Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

This has been a truly bizarre month.  Nearly everyone I encounter seems tense, short-tempered, in a perpetually dark mood.  Yes, there are m...

There's a line in a Rush song ("A Farewell to Kings") that says, "the hypocrites are slandering/ the sacred halls of trut...

First, my thanks to the more than 13,300 folks who read my most recent blog post. I've never had that many readers, even when I've ...

Yesterday was Neil Peart's birthday.  For those who are not Rush fans, Neil spent more than four decades as their drummer.  He was an am...

This past week, as any Rush fan knows, a rock music website published an article containing some quotes from podcaster Eddie Trunk, who asse...

As someone who is fascinated by history, I can understand why many white people in the south have felt passionate about preserving statues o...

I'm going to do something that will surprise some of you:  I'm going to defend Donald Trump.  There was a video circulating online s...