Entries by Robert S. Griffin, Ph.D.
Thoughts from a Leather Couch About COVID-19
Note: I wrote this article on March 30th. After I finished it, I thought, “You’re ancient and losing it and unqualified to be writing about this topic. Everybody is on board with how to come at this COVID-19 pandemic and there has to be something wrong with you.” I set the article aside. It’s now […]
A Rejoinder to “The ABC’s of the Alt-Right: A Guide for Students” by Thomas Dalton, Ph.D.
I read with interest Professor Thomas Dalton’s article posted here on December 8th, 2019, “The ABC’s of the Alt-Right: A Guide for Students.” As has Professor Dalton, I have spent many years on American university campuses (I recently retired)—in my case, 42 years as a professor, plus an additional five years at the instructor rank […]
Why I Owe Jim Bakker an Apology and Thank You
Recently, I wrote an article, posted here, on the 1969 Academy-Award-winning film “Midnight Cowboy.” I’m old enough to have seen it in a theater back when it was first released—of course, no DVDs or streaming in those years. I hadn’t seen it again until this year, a gap of a half-century no less. What particularly […]
“Midnight Cowboy” Revisited: Making New Sense of an Iconic Old Film
I subscribe to The Criterion Channel, a streaming service that specializes in classic old films. A week ago, as I write this, it featured the 1969 American film, though with a British director, “Midnight Cowboy.” I was in my late twenties back then and saw it in a Minneapolis movie theater, the only option back […]
Who Shall Remain Nameless: Al Hanzal and Democracy in Action
I grew up in the West End of Saint Paul, Minnesota in the 1940s and ’50s. Back then, the West End—it was also called West 7th Street–was a solid, upstanding, church-going, white working-class community. All of us went to Monroe High School (named for James Monroe, the fifth U.S. president, 1817-1825), grades 9-12, on Palace […]
Where is Calvin Coolidge When We Need Him?
In the 1952 American presidential election, Republican Dwight Eisenhower ran against Democrat Adlai Stevenson. Eisenhower was a five-star general in the army and Stevenson was the governor of Illinois. I’m so old I was in grade school back then and my teacher Miss Kelly, who was big for Stevenson—as I think about it, this may […]
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