Sightings Articles
The Soul of the Nation?
A campaign slogan raises interesting questions about what, exactly, we're all fighting for
October 26, 2020
Why Milo Scares Students, and Faculty Even More
Editor's note: For a collection of responses to this piece, please see “A Packet for Rachel Fulton Brown” (March 2, 2017). On Wednesday, February 1st, there was a riot at the University of California, Berkeley. The College Republicans had invited ...
February 16, 2017
Pseudo-Events Clash -- Martin E. Marty
More than a half century ago, historian Daniel J. Boorstin—a Ph.D. dissertation-adviser of mine—taught us to distinguish between events and pseudo-events. The latter, he noted, were staged to get media attention whether anything event-ful had happene...