by Jeff Maisey | Jun 16, 2018 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham You can’t be what you can’t see. ~ Marian Wright Edelman Every so often I see something on television that serves as a stark reminder of how much American society has changed for the better in my lifetime. A case in point: The other night I was...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 16, 2018 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham A few weeks ago I posted on Facebook a satirical commentary titled “Make America Great Again.” Within an hour, it had elicited a typical combination of “likes” from people who share my views, and harsh rebukes from my right-wing acquaintances. The...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 26, 2018 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Teach your parents well / Their children’s hell will slowly go by. ~ Graham Nash In the immediate aftermath of the massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the debate over gun control began anew—but there was little reason...
by Jeff Maisey | Jan 19, 2018 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works… ~ The Gospel According to Matthew, 5:16 Last year at this time, I was struggling to process the news that my longtime mentor, Nat Hentoff, had died. (See ‘Thank You, Nat...
by Jeff Maisey | Dec 22, 2017 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Here and there does not matter / We must be still and still moving / Into another intensity / For a further union, a deeper communion. ~ T.S. Eliot As we enter the final days of 2017, I find myself reflecting on the past 12 months. It was a...
by Jeff Maisey | Nov 20, 2017 | News, Robotham
By Tom Robotham When I was working for Hearst Magazines in the early ‘90s I got to know Helen Gurley Brown, the iconic editor of Cosmopolitan. She was a formidable woman, but a bit of an enigma. On the one hand she spent her career advancing ideas that could be...
