by Jeff Maisey | Jul 17, 2019 | News, News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham In the wake of the recent Democratic debates, the widespread consensus was that there was one clear winner: Kamala Harris. And there was one moment above all others that made her stand out—her confrontation with Joe Biden over his opposition to...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 18, 2019 | News, News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham We haven’t had that spirit here since 1969 – The Eagles In July, 1979, President Carter went on national television to deliver what came to known as his “malaise speech.” At the heart of the address was Carter’s assertion that the country was...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 4, 2019 | News, News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham A church is there to teach you to pay attention, and to awaken the poetry in your soul. ~ Margaret Visser, The Geometry of Love. On the afternoon of April 15, I received a call from Jeff Maisey, the publisher of this magazine. When I...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 18, 2019 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham For the past year or so, my life has been marked by a series of unsettling disruptions. It all started last spring when my 15-year-old car, which I loved, finally bit the dust. In the grand scheme of things, it wasn’t that big a deal. But it turned...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 15, 2019 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Recently an old friend shared on Facebook a link to a two-year-old article in The Staten Island Advance—a paper for which I used to work—about a New York City resident who was upset by a vocabulary question on his 11-year-old daughter’s homework...
by Jeff Maisey | Feb 20, 2019 | News, News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Two years ago, I delivered a talk at the Tidewater Community College Literary Festival called “Scenes from a White Boy’s Life,” in which I reflected on my lifelong efforts to understand “the problem of the color line,” as W.E.B Du Bois put it. I talked...
