Editorials

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Perrone with Harvard students, 1997: A lonely voice for humanism.

Standardized testing, reconsidered

Standardized tests = standardized kids?

Standardized tests may pressure schools and teachers to emphasize reading and writing, but what then?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 1 minute read
Ty Cobb: Great competitor, obnoxious human being.

Does sport build character?

What I learned on a football field

Precisely what is it about sports that builds character? Take it from one who has been there and done that: It isn't sports per se that build character. It's defeat.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 6 minute read
Defense of the Alamo, 1836: The courage to die for the right to own slaves.

Imagine America without Texas

Where would we be without Texas?

America without Texas? Are you serious? Can you imagine America without Ike Eisenhower, Van Cliburn, Dr. Denton Cooley or Tex-Mex cuisine?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 4 minute read
Shestack (with wife Marciarose): Up against George C. Wallace.

A fate worse than death: The Inquirer's obituaries

Profiles in courage (that you won't read in the Inquirer)

Death comes to everyone. But must everyone also be subjected to the cutesy irrelevance of an Inquirer obituary? This month, serious figures like Elkins Wetherill, Creed Black and Jerome Shestack became the latest victims of Philadelphia's newspaper of record.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 6 minute read

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Lincoln: Clarity amid chaos.

Was the Civil War necessary?

Second-guessing history: Was the Civil War necessary?

Was America's bloody Civil War really necessary? Should John Brown, who forced the issue, be pardoned? Or did the South force the issue by firing the first shot on Fort Sumter? These three intriguing questions are actually interconnected.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 6 minute read
Natalie Munroe saw herself as the aggrieved party, and still does. (Photo: AP.)

The case of the blogging schoolteacher

When professionals blame their clients

Is Bucks County's blogging schoolteacher providing valuable insight into an educator's mind? Or is she violating the confidence of her youthful charges during their vulnerable formative years?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 6 minute read
What could be more demeaning to women and unhealthy for men? And yet….

The world's most useless job?

One cheer for Hooters

Who in his right mind would patronize a sexist, high-cholesterol, beer-swilling roadhouse like Hooters? Funny you should ask.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 2 minute read
In my day, Kay Graham was the only female chief of a Fortune 500 company.

Women's liberation, then and now

Feminism, from my generation to yours

Call me an old reactionary if it suits your purposes. But it was my generation, beginning in the late 1960s, that did the real heavy lifting of the women's liberation movement, against much stiffer odds than feminists face today.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 6 minute read
Scene from Cara Blouin's  'Dan Rottenberg Is Thinking About Raping You': To set things right.

An editor's mea culpa

An apology about sex abuse

Let me face up to what's been keeping me awake nights these past weeks: My advice to women about how to deal with predatory males was ignorant, insensitive and hurtful, not to mention useless.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 3 minute read
Scene from Cara Blouin's 'Dan Rottenberg Is Thinking About Raping You': Persuasion vs. intimidation.

About my column on sex abuse

Broad Street Review under siege: Lessons from a controversial column

My recent column on female responses to male sexual abuse unleashed a firestorm of angry mail and demands for my dismissal and worse. Since my role at BSR is to provoke discussion and educate myself, you may well ask: What have I learned from this experience?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 8 minute read