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Is Mike Rice an 'animal,' or a dedicated teacher?

Mike Rice: Scapegoat of the week

A method to their madness: A few kind words for abusive coaches

Rutgers University's basketball coach, Mike Rice, was fired this month for cursing his players and throwing basketballs at them. I think I know how anyone who was coached by Milt Breenberg at Camp Takajo in Maine would react to this uproar: “What a bunch of wusses!”
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials less than a minute read
Reading Terminal, c. 1950: OK by day, but by night....

Herb Lipson's good old days

Through a glass darkly, with Philadelphia Magazine's chairman

For 50 years, Philadelphia Magazine's chief has been kvetching about the sad state of his city. Now he misses the city he used to kvetch about.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 6 minute read
Rizzo mural, South Philadelphia: How do you defend a suit filed by an icon?

The Supreme Court evades gay marriage

‘This is my job'— isn't it?

The Supreme Court justices' reluctance to decide a case before them last week reminded me of the one time I appeared in a courtroom as a defendant.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 5 minute read
What a shame— only the students heard him.

Obama the chess player

Obama and those speeches that ‘failed'

The Inquirer's Trudy Rubin scolds President Obama for wasting his time in the Middle East on speeches to students. Please remind me: Who was behind the Arab Spring, which seemingly no one but Obama expected?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 3 minute read
Can't Herb Lipson do something about this?

Philadelphia Magazine on "being white'

The terror and the tedium: On being white in Philadelphia

Like most white Philadelphians, I could feel my heart thumping excitedly when I saw the headline on Philadelphia Magazine's March cover story: “Being White in Philly.” At last, I thought, they're doing a story about me!
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 4 minute read
Zinman at work: 'My skin was certainly too thin.'

Toby Zinman and her critics

The critic and her critics

Arts critics usually fall into one of three categories: journalists, academics and groupies. Toby Zinman, the Inquirer's current lead drama critic, defies such easy categorization, which is mostly to her credit. But a lack of formal grounding can cause great pain when you're suddenly thrown into the pool without it.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 6 minute read
Pius IX wasn't nearly as smart as he thought.

The trouble with papal infallibility

The unbearable lightness of being infallible

To some observers, the pope is a rare modern example of an absolute dictator. Yet far from enhancing the pope's power, the doctrine of papal infallibility locks every pope in to the rulings of his predecessors. How did a church that once attracted the brightest minds in Christendom wind up with such shallow leadership?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 7 minute read
Why doesn't anything like this happen in my neighborhood?

Johnny Deadline, composer (parody)

They call me Johnny Deadline, or: No country for old composers

The Pope, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Taliban and the Quakers were all breathing down my neck for a piece of my creativity. Could I take the pressure? For a deadline composer, it was just another day at the office.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 5 minute read

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And you wonder why my ancestors left Krasnopol?

History lesson from David Brooks

To emigrate or not: My ancestors weigh the pros and cons

The New York Times columnist David Brooks urges today's self-centered Americans to sacrifice the present for the future, as our immigrant ancestors did. Do you suppose he was in the room when my own forebears first decided to emigrate to America?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 5 minute read
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a monkey.

Brave new world of blogging

In control, out of control: Bloggers, editors and BSR

Roz Warren has discovered the difference between the New York Times and its website. Basically, it's the difference between total control and anarchy. Here at BSR, we seek a happy medium.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 5 minute read