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By CARL DOERNER

 The gatherers of facts have it that our least educated citizens were those most likely to vote for Trump. As a career teacher and school administrator, I take keen interest in that analysis.Privatization of schooling in New Orleans was the...

By CARL DOERNER

 The circumstances surrounding Jan. 6, 2021, are not without precedent. That you haven’t heard of an earlier attempt than Donald Trump’s to establish authoritarian rule in the U.S. is due not to the fact it failed, but because corporations that create...

By CARL DOERNER

 The German-American philosopher-historian Hannah Arendt was one of the 20th century’s wisest and respected interpreters. In her famous book, “The Origins of Totalitarianism” (1968), she wrote:“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses...

By CARL DOERNER

 Despising one-man rule, nearly all of them slave owners, men of wealth and property gathered to create the U.S. They looked to ancient Greece, and to an Indian Confederation for models and designed a government in which “some” men ruled.Selecting a...

By CARL DOERNER

 Back in May, NPR’s “All Things Considered” broadcast an accounting of the impact of COVID on New York’s theater industry. The latter term applies. Preparing a drama for the stage on Broadway is little different than other capital ventures. It...

By CARL DOERNER

On April 11, Donald Trump met with oil, gas, and other industry guests he had invited to his Mar-a-Lago estate. He asked for their support in the coming presidential election with donation of $1 billion. Yes, a billion dollars.And yes, he can do this...

By CARL DOERNER

November is the month for elections, and Nov. 5 promises to be a dramatic day — but March is the month of cinema and contention over who has produced the best work the public will come sit for hours in the dark to see. The Academy Awards ceremony...

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 No one has explained why young GIs were sleeping in a Jordan desert when harm came to them. Those generals who appear on TV are only up to speed about attacks, counterattacks, counter-counterattacks and so on. The military has to justify its...

By CARL DOERNER

The Sept 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center echoed a devastating coup on Sept. 11, 1973 supported by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, by General Augusto Pinochet against the elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile. In retaliations,...

By CARL DOERNER

When he died last month, Henry Kissinger was lauded as preeminent diplomat of the past half-century. The news media didn’t shy from the fact that he was controversial, but for the most part they left graveyards he created unvisited.Growing up in...

By CARL DOERNER

Back before succumbing to fame, poet and folksong creator Bob Dylan wrote a ballad about how people are used by the powerful titled “Only a Pawn in Their Game.” The subject — the rifle shot in darkness by a white man taking the life of Black civil...

By CARL DOERNER

Early in his leadership of Blacks for civil rights, Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Riot is the language of the unheard.” While those protests were nonviolent, the phrase has evolved to “violence is the language of the unheard.” As an historian...

By CARL DOERNER

News reports inform us Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has repeatedly been the recipient of gifts of travel by a wealthy donor who, coincidentally, has business before the court and could therefore be seeking favorable rulings.Thomas’ wife,...

By CARL DOERNER

Having appreciated its splendid desert terrain, learned its early history, and protested continued focus on nuclear science on the hostile streets of Los Alamos, the world of Robert Oppenheimer has become a somewhat familiar place for me. The science...

By CARL DOERNER

We have a hateful national story we should never allow to be forgotten. That is the wartime action for which President Franklin Roosevelt is most commonly criticized, his 1942 issuance of Executive Order 9066. The result was incarceration in our...

By CARL DOERNER

At pivotal moments in our history like the present — with indictments of a former president on multiple, substantive criminal charges — historians tend to look to circumstances and challenges of the past for insights or comparisons, and to speculate...

By CARL DOERNER

The two continents on which we Americans live were quite fully inhabited, for the most part, with long-established societies having languages, art, music and rich cultures of their own, all of which newcomers today would find fascinating and engaging....

By CARL DOERNER

On one hand, displayed in our country is an amusing rabble of Trump enthusiasts who, when interviewed, make claims about their idol no sane person would utter, e.g., “He won the election, is still president, and is running the country from his...

By CARL DOERNER

The recent birthday remembrance for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and its surveys of his significant accomplishments lacked, at least for me, any canvas of why he announced, the night before his assassination, “I may not get there with you to the...