Observations: Auschwitz on my mind
"And it made me think, even more than I had before, about antisemitism and the attacks on synagogues and Jews, both around the world and in the United States."
Allan Winkler
Observations: Barack Obama recalled
"About 20 years ago, I was teaching at the University of Nairobi in Kenya, on a Fulbright grant, when I received a copy of Barack Obama’s new book, 'Dreams from My Father.'"
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."
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.