The authors of “Let’s Agree to Disagree” offer a guide to fostering critical thinking and dialogue in a society that seems to have forgotten how to engage in either.
An air of hope and celebration permeated the Falmouth District Courtroom last Thursday, February 17, as a recovering drug and alcohol addict from the Upper Cape graduated from an intensive
In saying all of that, the contradictions inherent in its history, its sectional and racial fault-lines, and entropic constitutional architecture mean that any rose-tinted affection is tempered by experience and a heavy dose of realism. Back in 1998, while in Columbus, Ohio, I watched Bill Clinton fess up about his mad dalliance with Monica. He cut a lonely figure that weekend, skulking round the White House lawn with only his retriever Chappaqua for company. Clinton’s was a tumultuous presidency. A chaotic transition, a prolonged battle to pass an economic plan, Hillary’s failed health care reform, Newt Gingrich’s ‘Contract with America, a shelling at the ’94 mid-terms, the Oklahoma Bombing, re-election and finally impeachment.