A while back some angry kids went on a killing spree at their school, and the nation went on an hysterical binge. How could children - “good,” wealthy, white children for-God’s-sake - go on a violent rampage? It was un-American,...
16 May 2001
Another shooting in blue-collar Santee, California, and another in a parochial school in the Williamsport, Pennsylvania, bring school violence back into the news. Though media coverage exaggerates school violence, both safety and...
11 April 2001
Commander-in-Chief Bush doesn't want to eat crow, but the truly big question is whether
those captive boys and girls from the U.S. surveillance plane are being forced to eat dog
without their knowledge. The Canadians, eager to discredit...
04 April 2001
Here's a parable about what is intellectually respectable and politically safe in this country,
and what is not. It concerns two of this country's best known public intellectuals, Edward
Said and Susan Sontag.
It's a backhanded...
01 April 2001
FREEP HEROES
Subcommandante Marcos and the Zapatistas
As the Zapatistas say, “Our struggle is yours.” As we go to press, Subcommadante Marcos and the Zapatista delegation are in Mexico City attempting to negotiate...
28 March 2001
NEW MEXICO -- Drive across the United States, mostly on Interstate 40, and you'll
have plenty of time to listen to the radio. Even more time than usual if, to take my own
situation, you're in a 1976 Ford 350 one-ton pickup, ploughing along...
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