Observations: The atomic age and me
"My father was a Japanese language officer, who interrogated prisoners and translated captured documents in the Pacific. He also went into Nagasaki after that bomb obliterated the city."
Allan Winkler
Observations: Political Decency
"Politics is persuasion. But for persuasion to have any power, it needs to rely on the truth."
Observations: The Oxford Community Arts Center
"The arts center began as a dream in 1999. OxAct, the local drama group, saw the empty building on the corner of High and College Streets as a potential home."
Observations: The Humanities Center
"A dozen or so years ago, Karen Schilling, Dean of the College of Arts and Science, came to me with the request to create a new Humanities Center."
Observations: National Security Policy
A week or so ago, the Trump administration issued a new statement about National Security policy, but it wasn't a routine bureaucratic announcement.
Observations: The Humanities
These thinkers – and their works – provided a window into the fundamental questions of human life.
Observations: scandal and corruption
We have long prided ourselves on living under a government of laws. Now, we can only ask what has gone wrong.