Tag: mass shootings
Dec. 1, 2017
Before lashing out, try listening
Today, as I follow Western world leaders’ responses to increasing violence, I am astounded by blind patriotism which has become the hallmark of reactions. President…

May. 30, 2014
Hate and the echo chamber
Diversity is important. Not just the kind of “diversity” that Drexel’s Office of Equality and Diversity handles, but a much broader sense of diversity. Diversity…
Sep. 27, 2013
Television’s darkest hour
There has been a healthy conversation of late debating TV’s violence problem: whether there is one, what has caused it, and how and if it…
Sep. 20, 2013
The NRA is totally unreasonable
Many years of documented mental instability and multiple arrests for “minor shooting offenses” weren’t enough to keep Aaron Alexis, the shooter at the Washington Navy…
Jan. 18, 2013
Can mass shootings be prevented?
I was deeply saddened but not entirely surprised by the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., Dec. 14, 2012. A few days…
