Tom Ragle
Thinking for ourselves
So the other shoe has fallen, as expected: The Marlboro College we knew is gone forever. We are all in some form of mourning.
Emerson College is an honest institution, and I wish the best for the Marlboro Institute of Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies there, but while our academic program may be largely reproducible in an urban setting, the rural setting close to nature plus the sense of community with the town meeting form of self-government, all of which helped define us, are not.
Synagogue shooting was more than anti-Semitism — a crime against humanity
The media has properly condemned the recent mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh as an act of anti-Semitism. I have a good friend in Marlboro who grew up in the Squirrel Hill section, attended that synagogue, and had his bar...
The more serious underlying reality
We will never have the high standard of living that we enjoyed after World War II. So how do we deal with that fairly?
Bernie Sanders has been properly drawing attention to the declining standard of living for the American middle class. In the process, he has been attacking trade deals, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership, for causing the loss of jobs in this country.