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Legacy Lecture: My Life, My Career, My Classes, My Research, My Projects, My Students.
Israel at 75. The Palestine War of 1948. Liberation or Catastrophe, or both?
Les Miserables. Why I swore I would never read this novel. And why it is now one of my top two favorites.
Dominion Defeats Fox. The Parties Settled Today. What Happened, and Why? An 8 minute summary.
A Palestinian Reflects on His Life in Ramallah, and His Life in Ann Arbor. A New Memoir.
Christopher Robin Poems: A Delightful Selection
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Why there will be no negotiated solution. The Perspectives of Ian Lustick. A Reposting.
Jimmy Carter. A Great American. A Great Christian. He Never Gave Up
Ukraine War. Reposting from February, 2022 (I had not listened to this for a year. I learned some things. Thanks for doing it, Ron. You're welcome, Ron)
Eichmann in Jerusalem. Reposting on the 60th anniversary of its publication.
The Case for Caution: Why we Should NOT Invade Iraq. A talk from 2002. (Raises some good, long term issues).
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The Lebanon War of 1982: How Our Leaders Saw it. (Not a parody but at times sounds like one).
Kennedy School Rejects HRW Head over Apartheid Report. Reposting: Is Israel an Apartheid State? Please read text below.
Explaining Hitler. Ten Famous Scholars Debate the Issues (Sometimes with heated words)
Three Catholic Stories: A Female Pope (which the Vatican denies), My Run for Pope (which the Vatican denies), and Spotlight (which the Vatican wishes would go away).
Impeachment for Insurrection: The Second Trial of Donald J. Trump. A reposting
The Nine Commandments. (But I thought there were Ten?) This is really interesting.
When Ron Met Jane. Courtship in the Stone Age. A 60th Anniversary Story
Books on Religion That You Will be Glad you Read
Invitation to a Zoom Discussion, December 3, 2022 12:00-1:00 (Eastern Time). Details attached.
A Matter of Honor. An Incident in the Damascus Souk
The Return of Netanyahu and the Rise of the Israeli Hard Right. A Reposting on Kahanist Thinking
Four Fun Stories, two about Halloween. Including the legendary story of Gato, King of the Cats. (A reposting, just for fun).
Why the President's Party Loses Seats in the Off-Year Election, and why the pattern doesn't always hold. Political Analysis plus some comments. (How could I not?)
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The Palestinian Intifada of 1987-1993. Reposting. A parallel with Iran 2022?
Is Christianity Polytheistic? Uh ... Interesting question. Sit down. Have some coffee. Let's Talk
Eight Things About the Holocaust. Reposting of a Podcast
Kahan Commission Report on the Sabra and Shatilla Massacre: Reposting of an earlier podcast
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Lebanon War of 1982. The War That Never Stopped
Understanding the Americans. A Talk With Some Members of the German Bundestag.
Why Kill Salman Rushdie Over a Book? A Reposting (but worth your time)
Mark Twain's autobiography, and The Dog as Beautiful as a Girl
Is Israel an Apartheid State? What does that term mean, and what difference would it make?
Origins of Islam: Mohammed and the Koran
Three Detroit Area Gravestones (of really interesting people).
The Most Famous Public Opinion Study. How We Analyze Voting Behavior (and why people don't move around much).
Memorial Day 2022: Reflections during a Difficult Time. .
The Origins Of Public Opinion Research
Is Roe v Wade Doomed? The Leaked Alito Decision
Background to Islam: Not What You Think.
Liberation Theology: How Individuals became radicalized. The cases of Archbishop Romero and Che Guevara
Liberation Theology: The Political Background in Latin America, especially the role of US involvement in radicalizing the region.
Legendary Dearborn Mayor Orville Hubbard: Controversial, destructive, creative, racist.
Populorum Progressio. A papal encyclical renouncing the International Imperialism of Money; declaring that property ownership is not inviolate, and questioning whether free trade is consistent with Christian principles. .
Is Anti-Zionism a form of Anti-Semitism? And what do those terms mean anyway?
Liberation Theology: Peruvian Theologian Gustavo Gutierrez and the Social Factor
The Ukraine War of 2022: More Nuance and Insight than the News
Liberation Theology: Some Theological Themes
Valentine's Day: A Mushy Three Minute Love Story
Is Whoopi Goldberg Black? Are Jews White? What do we mean by Race? And why did Whoopi get Suspended from The View?
A Year of Podcasting. First Anniversary Report to Listeners.
RIP F. W. De Klerk, the Last White President of South Africa. And the Logic of Apartheid.
John Paul II. A Legendary Pope
How Democracies Die. Understanding the Insurrection of January 6, 2021
Archbishop Desmond Tutu. the Moral Giant, who created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
A Christmas Gift For You. The Story of The Rudolph Song. With Commentary
Christmas Songs: Who? What? When? Where? Why?
Vatican II: The Catholic Church Transformed
Roe v Wade. The Mississippi Challenge Now Before the Supreme Court
Closing a Church. A unique and significant Dearborn congregation doing things no other congregation was doing.
From the Other Side of the Desk. Stories of Memorable Students.
Biography of a Graveyard. What you can learn from 829 gravestones dating back 16 decades.
Religion And Politics 11. Rerum Novarum. The 1891 Papal Encyclical that Pulled the Church into the Modern Age.
Why Sexual Misconduct Investigations Go Wrong (Please read the introduction)
General Colin Powell. Some Reflections and Thoughts
Four Fun Stories. Two about Halloween
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 22. Suppressing Dissent.
Religion and Politics 10. How a Pope is Elected
Why are Darwin and Evolution So Controversial and So Politicized in the US?
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 21. The Palestinian Refugees of 1948. A Detailed Briefing. Third podcast of three on the Palestine War of 1948.
Hannah Arendt. A Great Intellectual and a Controversial Woman. (Suggestion: Watch the movie, Read the book).
September 11. Part II. After 9/11. A Talk to the Campus. A Talk to the Archdiocese. Reactions.
September 11. Recollections and Reflections from That Day in 2001
Religion and Politics 9: Abram Leon. A Marxian Analysis of The Jewish Question
The Israel Lobby and U. S. Foreign Policy. Introducing Mearsheimer and Walt, Two of America's Premier Strategic Thinkers
An English Vacation in the Lake District: Meeting the Queen (well, almost), Visiting Wordsworth's Grave and a Stone Circle, and Climbing The Mighty Helvelyn
Afghanistan: A Background Briefing
Religion and Politics 8. Marx on Religion. Not What You Think
A Black President. Thoughts the Day After Obama's Election, 2008.
The Satanic Verses: Salman Rushdie, Ayatollah Khomeini, and the Fatwa to Kill Rushdie
Six Months and Counting. A Report to Podcast Listeners
Gilead. My Favorite Novel. Suggestion: Listen to the podcast, then read the book.
Black Political Leaders. A Profile of Nine Different Personalities and Nine Different Styles
When Ron met Jane. A Story of Courtship in the 1960s
Religion and Politics 7. Osama bin Laden's 1996 Declaration of War on the United States.
Israeli-Palestine Conflict 20: The Holocaust. Eight Key Points
Religion and Politics 6. The Catholic Church. Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask. .
Black Intellectual Leaders
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 19. Paradigm Lost by Ian Lustick. Why Israel threw away the possibility of a Two-State Solution.
Religion and Politics 5. Background to Osama bin Laden and his Declaration of War on the U. S.
Pete Seeger, one of the great protest singers, and what happened when he sang "Knee Deep in The Big Muddy" on national television just after the Tet Offensive
Religion and Politics 4. The Book of Daniel. A Biblical Critique of Religious Uprisings.
Religion and Politics 3. The Maccabees Uprising
How to Write. Lessons Learned Along the Way
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 18. Beirut's Sabra and Shatilla Massacre. Israel's Kahan Commission Report
Lincoln's Greatest Speech. The Second Inaugural
General William Westmoreland, U. S. Commander in Vietnam, 1964-1966.
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 17. The Israeli Hard Right. the Kahanist Model
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 16. Al Aqsa Intifada, 2000-2005. The logic of violence, the impact of violence.
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 15. The First Intifada, 1988-1993.