Category: last word

By Will [email protected]’S NOTE: Will Block grew up around a therapist. The year 2020 has been mind-bending beyond belief. We need some humor in all this darkness. HPR reached out to Will and he delivered....

By Marc de [email protected] someone who has voted for both Republicans and Democrats in the last decade, and who has participated as both a poll worker and an absentee vote counter in the last five years, I feel...

By Charlie [email protected]“Be as courageous as you can – If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny.”- Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, #20 “We are the Folk Song Army, Everyone of us...

By Sabrina Hornung  [email protected] It’s been a weird year…talk about the understatement of the decade. This week’s issue of High Plains Reader is our first issue since March. Who would have thought that the story...

By Wess [email protected] week marks at least 129 days since 5,000 people marched through the streets of Fargo in the name of justice and equality. Through many years of being an activist, I had never...

No Tolerance? — No Democracy; No Freedom, Peace Or Justice; No Habitable Planet!“Is there in all republics this inherent and fatal weakness? Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people, or...

“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.” – Confucius“On March 26, 2020, the people of the United States desperately needed a leader (for the Covid-19 Pandemic). Instead they got Donald Trump and...

“(Kafka’s) world knows no physical or moral order…We, the readers, are reliving our bad dreams…punishment is over all the characters, but the crime remains mysteriously hidden…” – William Hubben“The...

“The vast majority of African-Americans who lived in this land in the first 246 years of what is now the United States lived under the terror of people who had absolute power over their bodies and their very breath, subject to...

“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.” – Ralph Elison, Invisible Man, 1951 “Although the (1965) Voting Rights Act was sponsored by a…pro-civil-rights president who was…a Southern...

“History, like payback, is a bitch.” – Chicago Dog“History as a discipline began as a confrontation with war propaganda. In the first history book, The Peloponnesian Wars, Thucydides was careful to make a distinction...

“The problem for white, liberal males in positions of responsibility in the 1960s (and later), whether at universities, banks, law offices, small businesses and corporations, or legislatures was that the intellectual arteries of...