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Nikole Hannah-Jones, the 1619 Project, and Academic Freedom
In April the University of North Carolina's Hussman School of Journalism and Media announced that Nikole Hannah-Jones would join its...

David Matthews
Jun 7, 202112 min read
The Israeli Peace Movement, Palestinian Nonviolent Activism, and What They Are Up Against
News coverage of Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank tends to focus on Hamas raining rockets down on Israel and Israel in turn bombing the...

David Matthews
May 31, 202112 min read
Literary Adventure with Larry McMurtry
We were taught to make outlines in high school, maybe before that, as far back as fifth or sixth grade at Dutch Fork Elementary. Although...

David Matthews
May 21, 202119 min read
Liz Cheney and the Urgency of the Moment
Liz Cheney and I share little common ground. For the most part a vast chasm lies between us. Cheney contributed to the authoritarian...

David Matthews
May 12, 20213 min read
Untimely thoughts prompted by the Chauvin verdict; and sundry digressions
The jury's verdict of guilty on all counts in the Derek Chauvin trial should have come as no surprise. The prosecution had a strong case...

David Matthews
Apr 29, 20217 min read
The Writer at Work
W.S. Merwin wrote in a poem that he once asked John Berryman how you can ever be sure that what you write is really any good, to which...

David Matthews
Apr 9, 202111 min read
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