Articles by Robert Zaller

Goddard College in Vermont marches to a different drummer. It held a commencement in early October, and it invited as its guest speaker Mumia Abu-Jamal,…

Drexel, a colleague remarked to me the other day, is a university buried inside a shopping mall. Sure looks like it to me. It’s all…

Eric Holder’s unexpected resignation as attorney general, his tearful exit, and the unceremonious way he was shown the door all suggest a forced departure. To…

Two ships passed in the night in the past week. More than 400,000 people marched in New York to dramatize the ecological disaster already upon…

National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell is under fire for allegedly covering up or inadequately responding to acts of domestic violence committed by the League’s…

The ongoing and ever-worsening crisis in Ukraine, which began last November when then-President Viktor Yanukovych chose to accept a generous aid package offered by Russia…

So, let’s see. We are asking our declared enemy in the Middle East to help prop up the puppet government we created for its benefit…

The boycott, divest and sanctions movement against Israel continues to make weary rounds through academic associations and religious denominations. As I wrote a few months…

The “debate” over Edward Snowden, framed by those who denounce him and the media sycophants who follow them, is epitomized by the question of whether…

For four years, students endure the boredom of being lectured at, and then at graduation they endure a final hour in the form of the…