We have never had more ways to communicate, yet I wonder if we have forgotten how to have a conversation. I have spent much of my life talking. As a journalist, radio host, teacher, and activist, I’m familiar with the power of words. [...]
Pat Taub
With my birthdays piling up I ordered Ursula LeGuin’s* new collection of essays, No Time to Spare, seeking enlightenment for my own aging journey. The book’s title was inspired by a Radcliffe alumni survey sent to LeGuin, class of 1951. She was dumbfounded by the question that asked how she spent her spare time. Her response: “What is [...]
Pat Taub
A New Year! I’m glad to turn the page on 2017, but there’s no assurance that 2018 will be any better unless we organize a massive protest movement. The Orange Monster’s unraveling is reaching new heights as he fumes over Michael Wolff’s to-be-released-today book about Trump. Will it bring him down and will he take us with him as he [...]
Pat Taub