Boycott
I feel a bit sick after hearing that the leadership of one of the UK’s higher-ed faculty unions voted for a boycott of Israeli academics. See LabourStart’s list of articles about the boycott. There is nothing specific yet about the dynamics in the hall or precisely what will happen when the two UK higher-ed unions […]
Memorial Day and contingency
The uncle I never met, Leo Dorn, was the second child of Philip and Gertrude Dorn, about seven years younger than Murray and seven years older than Al (my father). As an adolescent, he never really got along with my grandfather, and he enlisted in WW2 in part as a way to get away from […]