by RobertOsburn | Jul 28, 2014 | Uncategorized |
© 2014 Robert OsburnWhen asked what they like best about the USA, international students invariably answer: “Freedom!” Over a delightful lunch recently, one of my international mentees volunteered that during his year here he felt free of his government’s...
by RobertOsburn | Jul 21, 2014 | Uncategorized |
© 2014 Robert OsburnLast week I proposed my thesis that the 60s, with its devastating overthrow in the USA of a Christian cultural consensus, could have happened in the 1930s. Today, I explain why the 60s never happened in the 30s….The 1920s unleashed a flood of...
by RobertOsburn | Jul 14, 2014 | Uncategorized |
© 2014 Robert OsburnMy freshman year (1969-70) at the University of Michigan was chaos. Every day brought fresh radical action, threatened or undertaken. Learning was a challenge, especially when your final exams were disrupted by bomb threats (as...
by RobertOsburn | Jul 7, 2014 | Uncategorized |
© 2014 Robert OsburnRecently, a tiny group of my age cohort met and, as is sometimes the case, we lamented US cultural decline. In so doing, we were retreading a well-rehearsed practice whereby the aging (I’m in my 60s) decry the loss of a world they knew when...
