Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

On any day in Washington DC, you can find politicians from both sides of the aisle criticizing their political opponents. It's almost li...

I'm teaching a very important course this semester, and the timing couldn't be better. It's called Political Communication, and ...

Since it's Jewish New Year, and the beginning of the Ten Days of Repentance, I'd like to talk about politics. No, I don't mean t...

I never met either of my grandmothers, although I heard a lot about both of them when I was growing up. My maternal grandmother (Dora) died ...

If you're a fan of Rush, there's a song of theirs from 1975 called "I Think I'm Going Bald." I've heard various ve...

When I was a kid (I think I was about four years old), my mother took me to a toy store, and I saw something I wanted. For whatever reason, ...

Back in the 1990s, when I was an instructor at Emerson College in Boston, they needed someone to be the Jewish chaplain; our previous Jewish...