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Note: this is the second of a series of Toteboard post-election reflections. Even without the benefit of flash polls and scientific...

From 1957 through 1974, a Hartford, CT television station aired a most extraordinary weekly program called What in the World. The...

Herman's Toteboard is pleased to feature its very first guest column. The author, Aiden Downey, is a Georgia-based writer, Renaissance...

Many of you may be familiar with Stanford University’s Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative (EHLI), a multi-year project directed...

Sixty-three years ago today, CBS first aired the classic Twilight Zone episode, “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street,” one of Rod...

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Such a capacity for growth, as a Justice develops his or her own constitutional philosophy, is essential if a person is to become a truly...

During the dog days of the summer of 1966, that venerable Connecticut journalistic warhorse, the Hartford Courant, provided a valuable...

Now that MLB’s decision to pull the All-Star Game out of Georgia has inextricably linked baseball and voting rights, the Toteboard has...

Note: This installment of the Toteboard addresses some very sensitive issues, and in so doing quotes sources that employ offensive and...

With the inauguration of Joe Biden, the swearing in of three ethnically iconic democratic senators, the expulsion of Trump from the White...

At an educational institution in GA a couple of months ago, the full faculty voted on whether or not to change an important policy, one...

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Note: this is the first of a series of Toteboard post-election reflections. Some thirty years ago, a friend was speaking candidly about...

In honor of the college students who are taking midterm exams on campuses all over the country (thanks to their morally compromised...