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After a publication hiatus, The Henniker Review is back and in print, ready to be enjoyed by the New England College community once again.

Well, Rebel Girl, they’ve arrested you again, taken you off the streets as they did in Missoula and Spokane, Lawrence and Paterson, It’s your legacy and our reward. But did they and do they think they can destroy you or make us forget you? Your...

Unlike elections before the arrival of Trump on the political scene, post-trumpist elections are not about one candidate being more attractive than another or about opposing political and economic ideas. The upcoming election is not in the category of...

Well, Dave Sandoe, you asked the question, “What do you think?” I think you’re wrong. The Fourth Amendment was an implicit response to the practice British soldiers had of entering and/or taking over a private house for their own use. But the...

No, Mr. Bloomquist, you are wrong on both counts, on racism and on the Second Amendment. The Constitution and its Bill of Rights, to which Jefferson most strongly objected, were written by white men most of whom owned slaves. Its Senate was (and still...

Supreme Court decisionsSo, we now see pictures of the so-called “pro life” people celebrating the partisan Supreme Court vote on Roe v. Wade. What are they celebrating, a religious victory, a political victory, or just that they finally won something?...

Recent Letters to the Editor from Don Melander and Lynn Rudmin Chong make excellent points regarding the importance of mixed-income housing. Both write that segregating groups by income when race is involved supports and perpetuates racism. I agree....

As Don Melander points out (Monitor, 12/17), evidence of our systemic racism is our acceptance of city ghettoes.A student I had when teaching at Mass Bay Community College one day told me that in her dominantly Black Boston neighborhood, “It’s easier...

I’m going to make this as short and clear, but not as sweet, as I can. Systemic racism in America is identified, represented and even explained by the persistent existence of one phenomenon in American history, culture, and experience: the urban...

Chinua Achebe borrowed the title of his great book from W. B. Yeats’ 1919 poem “The Second Coming,” which announced the collapse of the teleology that had driven western civilization since the birth of Jesus: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot...