University of Pennsylvania
Guest essay: Penn punks out of a touchy debate
“Censorship is the enemy of education, in all times and places.”
Stu Bykofsky
Military draft
On a bright spring day, someone feels a draft
Cocktails went on almost three hours, too enjoyable for words, and it was during that — here’s the lede — that one of them mentioned that they had “heard” Pete Hegseth was bringing back the draft.
Bike lanes
On democracy and bike lanes
Barriers would not have protected Dr. Friedes as she was killed by a drunk driver doing almost 60 m.p.h.
Inga Saffron
The Cyclops of the Inquirer is at it again
She hates cars, and by extension motorists, who she seems to view as Cro-Magnon, with no citizenship rights.
Artemis II
Artemis II: The original movie was better
What can compare to “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind”?
Baby Boomers
Guest essay: Boomers went from analog to digital
They are the only generation in human history to have lived a fully analog childhood and a fully digital adulthood. No other generation will ever cross that particular bridge again.
Reparations
Guest essay: A path to recovery from slavery
“One of my concerns with much of the reparation movement and with frameworks such as critical race theory is that they often place people into permanent categories: victim and victimizer, oppressed and oppressor.”
Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez: The making of an unperson
You might say it was like white Americans learning that George Washington, among other Founding Fathers, was a slave holder. In our present culture, that is evil.
DEAD BEAT CITY
Philly is a snail when it comes to paying its bills
90% “of the more than 12,000 outside service contracts that the city signed from fiscal 2020 through January 2025” were paid late.
Book Review
Is the middle class dead and gone forever?
In framing the book, Dickerson puts the spotlight on her own parents, who did break into the middle class, where Dickerson finds herself today.
Donald J. Trump
What to know about the Trump gold coin
The back is a bald eagle in flight. Fleeing in embarrassment?
Kathy Hochul
NY gov needs the rich to pay the bills
“Maybe our first step should be to go down to Palm Beach and see who we can bring home,” she said.