Dialogue & Discourse: a blog by Donna Halper

Because I used to be a deejay, I sometimes name my blog posts after song titles, or after lyrics that I like. If you're a Rush fan, you ...

I remember it as if it was almost yesterday. It was the last week in November 2014 when I got the phone call from the specialist. And he tol...

I was thinking about Hanukkah a lot this week, and that's not something I usually do. Don't get me wrong: it's a perfectly nice ...

I had known for a while that Geddy Lee was writing another book, and unlike the last one, this was more of an autobiography than a tribute t...

Back in the 1990s, I was teaching a media analysis course at Emerson College, and one night, after class, a student from Saudi Arabia had a ...

I have to admit I'm someone who doesn't like surprises.  I'd much rather know what's going on, and I usually do. But last We...

When I was growing up in the 1950s and early 60s, dress codes were a part of everyone's life. It was a much more formal culture: even in...