Chuck RaddaJan 18, 20192 minNature still abhors a vacuum, including the one left by a president.I can hardly be the only one who has agonized over how our country, in the age of Trump, would fare in a catastrophic event like 9/11,...
Chuck RaddaJan 16, 20192 minIs this heaven? It might have been until Steve King arrived.In 1989 I won a National Endowment Grant to study the novel Middlemarch for four weeks at Drake University in DesMoines, Iowa. (My joke...
Chuck RaddaJan 14, 20192 minIf Republicans are fleeing from Trump, we may have to redefine "flee."This was a headline in Slate magazine on December 19, 2018: Republican Leadership Is Slowly Backing Away From Trump Note the date. It was...
Chuck RaddaJan 12, 20192 minSpreading and replicating—the virus that is Trump surges ahead.One-hundred years ago the influenza pandemic, begun a year prior, was winding down. An estimated 675,000 Americans died. Remember that...