Commentator Jay Parini has been watching the contest between Governor Scott Walker and the teachers of Wisconsin, and thinking about how we value our teachers in Vermont.
E-books are gaining in popularity. But commentator Jay Parini has a preference for what you might call "real’ books. So for him, the Kindle and other new-tech readers are problematic.
Along with most of the rest of the world, commentator Jay Parini had a complex series of reactions when he heard that President Obama was to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace.
Commentator Jay Parini has been thinking about the outbreak by Congressman Joe Wilson during the president’s address last week to a joint session of Congress.