[A revised version of this post appears on the website Killing the Buddha, as of Monday Nov. 28, 2016.] The morning after the election, I woke to a world where the sun rose again, streaming through the east-facing window behind my bed. The brilliant November sunrise seemed in stark contrast to the news I already […]
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September 11th: a moment rooted in place and time
I remember the first time I realized September 11th had become an event that would fade out of active memory and into the pages of history books, when one day, people would no longer say, “I remember where I was when September 11th happened.” I was teaching the “contemporary” half of a United States history class, […]