by Robin Kirk | Dec 3, 2013 | featured, Robin Kirk
The Internet lit up recently with the announcement that Amazon is testing a new system that will allow the giant retailer to deliver some order within thirty minutes. Like many, I watched the video and then followed the inevitable memes linking the plan to Terminator,...
by Robin Kirk | Nov 24, 2013 | Robin Kirk
Esperanza Spalding speaks — and sings — beautifully against injustice at Guantánamo....
by Robin Kirk | Sep 23, 2013 | featured, Robin Kirk
Images of Belfast’s brick-hurling thugs seem like unwelcome eruptions of ancient history on our Internet feeds. Rooted in England’s very first colonial venture under Henry II in the 1100s, the continuing argument over Northern Ireland is both impenetrable...
by Robin Kirk | Aug 27, 2013 | Robin Kirk
“The civil rights movement moved from the bottom up, not from the top down — and that’s the same spirit that is behind Moral Monday.” Prof. William Chafe, arrested on the second Moral Monday protest at North Carolina’s state legislature,...
by Robin Kirk | Aug 27, 2013 | Robin Kirk
This terrifying video of a young girl who apparently survived a chemical gas attack in Syria was posted this morning by the New York Times. Although the story wasn’t confirmed, the girl’s panic is all too real. According to the doctor attending her, her...
by Robin Kirk | Aug 15, 2013 | Robin Kirk
Reading is not only a powerful tool that connects us to the world and across time, culture, age and gender; it involves a very intimate connection between a writer and a reader. Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader is a novel I often teach, since it allows us to peer...
