Understanding Privilege in a Traffic Jam
There is a psychological bias we all have that makes us notice the cars that pass us, in a traffic jam, but …
Why Won’t Americans Wear Covid Masks?
Sociologists study human social behavior. They coined the term “collective action problem” to describe why people don’t act for the good of …
Special needs, special poet laureate
Amanda Gorman, the 2020 Youth Poet Laureate, was a special needs student. She has auditory processing problems. As a child, she did …
Uncivil
Scene 1: 1966. As a child, I learned about the Civil War. The tragedy — according to my third grade teacher — …
ICE in Boston–We have rights
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have been deployed in the Boston area. ICE (or someone pretending to be ICE) stopped a jogger in …