Tag: El Salvador

Dear Isabel (Letter/8)

Sunday 28 June 2015 Pages 9-10 Dear Isabel You can feel free to cal me all the Spanish swear words you know, but I think—get ready to attack—you are way too hard on yourself. I’m referring…

Dear Isabel (Letter/7)

Friday 26 June 2015 Dear Isabel Happy Friday, you’ve finished one week at the new job. Page 8, top paragraph  I take back what I said yesterday about boycotting the word “solidarity.”  That first sentence…

Dear Isabel (Letter/6)

Thursday 25 June 2015 Dear Isabel And so I continue…. Page 6, paragraph 1 The needs you mention here (arising from your journalistic writing in a specific place) aren’t peculiar or idiosyncratic—all humans have the…

Dear Isabel (Letter/5)

Wednesday 24 June 2015 Dear Isabel Page 5 Ah, claridad in El Salvador, because it is (seems?) so black and white.  Your description of what living there, amidst violence, gives you is powerful; e.g., “vulnerability is…

Face to Face with Elie Wiesel

This short review was originally published in the bulletin of the Center for Ethics and Social Policy in Berkeley, April 1993.  My book, Elie Wiesel and the Politics of Moral Leadership, was published in spring 2001….

You and Monseñor

You and Monseñor are alike in two obvious respects To me anyway You both have expansive hearts for the people You may say “But you know many people with big hearts” That’s true But the…

Modern Crucifixion in Central America

Every day during the years of conflict in Central America, tortured bodies were found along roadsides—as in Jesus’ day the crucified victims of the Roman Empire were displayed on the side of the road—to instill…