Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

I've never met Megyn Kelly. But based on what she said a couple of days ago, she seems to believe I'm a fraud. Agreed, she didn'...

When I was in high school, I don't recall learning anything about the Civil Rights Movement. Our American history books in the late 1950...

I've mentioned in a previous blog post that I enjoy playing word games; it's a way to keep my mind sharp. I've especially become...

I was walking to class the other day and stopped to say hi to one of my students. She looked like she'd been shopping, so I asked her wh...

I was sorry, but not surprised, to hear that Cleveland's Record Revolution (or Record Rev, as we used to call it) was closing. If you ar...

So, as it turns out, democracy was indeed on the ballot during the midterm elections, and so were women's rights. Prior to the elections...

When I was a kid, my parents always stressed the importance of telling the truth, and not making excuses if I did something wrong. I'd b...