Fiction, Facts, Film
How do documentary media differ from narrative media? STOP RIGHT THERE, my wife says. You are supposed to be blogging, not writing an essay, and a stiff, academic, atherosclerotic one at that. But, I whine, The Public Humanist is not really about blogging, which needs...Attie's New Neighbor Part 1
My mother has a new neighbor–again. Since I moved to the United States in 1981, my mother, Attie, and I talk on the phone every Sunday morning at 10 am. In June of 2001, she announced casually that she had a new neighbor.Attie and her husband Chris live in a...Attie's New Neighbor Part 2–The Keep
As chronicled in my previous essay, my mother’s new neighbor, Radovan Karad~i , was brought by helicopter to the prison now called "United Nations Detention Unit" in Scheveningen, across the street from my mother’s house. An "ordinary...Do You Have a License to Carry that Child?
I’m wondering why we need a license to get married, but we don’t need a license to have kids – especially considering the fact that a bad marriage is easily undone and does no irreparable harm, whereas bad parenting can create a legacy of misery that...E-Edition
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