by Jeff Maisey | Aug 13, 2016 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham On July 25, as the Democratic National Convention was getting underway, news broke that an armed man in the Larchmont section of Norfolk had barricaded himself inside his house after police came to question him on suspicion of vandalism. In a display...
by Jeff Maisey | Jul 8, 2016 | News & Views, Robotham
(From Minnesota to Louisiana to Dallas, tensions between police and the African-American community are at a boiling point) By Tom Robotham If we do not now dare everything, the fulfillment of that prophecy, recreated from the Bible in song by a slave, is upon us:...
by Jeff Maisey | Jun 18, 2016 | News & Views, Robotham, Travel
By Tom Robotham The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. ― G.K. Chesterton The first time I visited England, in 1979, most of the people I encountered were British. That may seem like a terribly obvious statement. But during...
by Jeff Maisey | May 21, 2016 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham When I was 15, in 1971, I thought there was a good possibility that I wouldn’t live to see my 19th birthday. The Vietnam War seemed to have no end in sight, and many of the older kids in my neighborhood had already been drafted. My only hope for...
by Jeff Maisey | Apr 16, 2016 | News & Views, Robotham
By Tom Robotham Last month The Post and Courier, a newspaper in Charleston, SC, ran a story about a professor at the College of Charleston who was suspended because his syllabus was “gravely deficient.” The story caught my attention because the dispute, to my mind,...
by Jeff Maisey | Mar 15, 2016 | News, News & Views, Robotham
BY TOM ROBOTHAM I don’t know what it means and I don’t care because it’s Shakespeare and it’s like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words. ― Frank McCourt. First off, I must make a confession: There was a time when I hated...
