Trylon & Perisphere interrogates America’s naïveté and the assault on our democracy through the lens of two Austrian immigrants, a Puerto Rican activist, and a young boy during the period leading up to the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair. 

The notion of “Parental Rights” has been appropriated by dangerous far right extremists to cancel curriculum that finds fault with a narrative as old as America’s original sin.

And yet, in a successful lawsuit filed in California, parent plaintiffs expressed their own, collective “parental rights” within a larger, constitutional context: the right to read.

The 1939-1940 World’s Fair, 80+ years later, as seen through the eyes of a pandemic-addled senior citizen. The Fair in New York was all about a “vision” for the world of tomorrow. I take issue with this.

This spring, the news broke that baseball season would be but a dugout shadow of its former self. But there’s no crying in baseball. I decided to step up and make my own stadium—with a twist.

Every October 5th is World Teachers Day. Most people have never heard of it. For me, it’s World Teachers Day 365 days a year. They are, after all, the glue that holds society together.

Teachers are tyrannized by the urgent. It’s one career, but many jobs: counselor, project planner, police officer, parent. Why burden them with more? The answer: teachers are uniquely qualified to embrace the meaningful and the true over the expedient.

I love the New Yorker cartoon depicting a man crawling through a desert, parched, shirtless, looking ahead at a mirage. Parched, yet hopeful, the desperate man utters: “Thank God! “A panel of experts!”

In order to solve an equation, we are told, just simplify operations. What you do to one side of the equation you must do to the other. Then, voilà, you can go out and play.

There are mathematical formulas for measuring a society’s level of inequality. Some good ones, some bad ones. Policies and people’s lives depend upon them. Educators should know about them.

Donald Trump is beyond help, but you knew that already. The most charitable amongst can try to reform him, but the chances for success are slim, at best.