LETTER: A plea for safety
I have a daughter who is in her second year at BU and is terrified by the recent string of attacks in and around the campus. Whatever you are doing to prevent these attacks is obviously not working and I implore you to seek assistance in confronting this serious problem. I feel helpless 3,000 miles […]
LETTER: Rhetorical caffeine for progressives nationwide
“@BarackObama: Watch a livestream of the second inauguration here starting at 11:30am ET:http://www.2013pic.org/live” Because there have only been two. Barack Obama’s second inauguration speech was riddled with the same rhetoric he has been spewing for the past four years. His ideological rant lasted about 15 minutes and rehashed his increasingly progressive agenda advocating for the […]
LETTER: On Piety
As the cinematic adaptation of Les Miserables gains popularity, more and more Americans are becoming familiar with Victor Hugo’s immortal tale of Jean Valjean, the ex-convict doer of moral good in face of all personal danger. As Americans watch this story unfold on the screen before them I wonder if, separated by nearly two centuries […]
LETTER: Divestiture revisited
To the Editor: A group of Boston University students known as DivestBU recently asked President Robert Brown to divest the institution’s endowment from corporations that sell fossil fuels, the principal source of greenhouse gases that drive climate change. Brown personally acknowledged the request and promised to have the university give it serious consideration. I hope […]
LETTER: Israel revisited
To the Editor: It is not an insignificant fact that, despite the space which it took in these pages, two recent letters professing support for Israel failed to mention the most basic feature of the Israel-Palestine conflict: Israel has maintained a four-decade long military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the two pieces […]
