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The Junction of my passions: teaching and learning, history and politics, podcasting and parenting, creating and caring. Occasionally some spiritual mumbo jumbo.
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Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor Tangerine Palpatine (opens the original)
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In January 2024, I penned a post predicting that Joe Biden would ditch his ambitions for a second term, writing: “Soon after Super Tuesday, the Tangerine Palpatine will effectively secure the Republican nomination—again revealing not just the rot at the core of the Republican Party, but the rot in the soul of middle America—Dems will hatch their master plan to pave a smooth off-ramp for Biden. Plagued, in order from most to least problematic, by: declining faculties, poll numbers, immigration po
A Neofascist Walks Into a School… (opens the original)
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Oh dear reader, while I try my damndest not to make The Junction another political rag polluting the increasingly toxic Substack air, it is my commitment to leverage this little space to grapple with issues that flat out flummox me. So here I go…On the heels of the resounding victory of the Alternative für Deutschland (which the German government designates as a right-wing extremist political party) in Saxony-Anhalt a couple weeks of ago, Berliners are heading to the polls this Sunday. <a class=
An Affair! A Massacre! (opens the original)
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Happy Monday, my dear reader. What follows is my annual attempt at a post I penned two years ago, a post I’ve resolved to share every year until a critical mass finally presses pause to meditate on the plight of the workers of the world. Enjoy!As you might expect from a dude who hosted ten seasons of a podcast about working, I have some thoughts about Labor Day. Mostly, I just want to tell the story…Once upon a time, in 1886, one block away from Jesse Spaulding Elementary School (where my father
The Bean Eaters (opens the original)
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Happy September! I am delighted to share this conversation I had with Joshua Weiner about Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem, The Bean Eaters. You are invited to read the gently edited transcript or listen to our conversation. You can listen below or wherever you get podcasts. This is our second episode in our series about poetry that matters. The first one is here. Enjoy!DL: </span
Dolly in the Unicontext (opens the original)
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This morning I woke up in the Charité hospital for the third and final day. I had vocal cord surgery and should be okay. I can’t complain. My roommates both have throat cancer. They can talk, I can’t. So they have been talking for and at me. Charmingly, both of them put on Led Zeppelin T-shirts this morning. Less charmingly, one of them has ominous tattoos. Let’s just say I really hope he’s a Roman history buff. I’m not sure I want to say much more about my hospital stay. It was fine. I’m very l
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