The City University of New York has been the scene of what The New York Times called a “firestorm” over its handling of an honorary doctorate awarded to — and temporarily withdrawn from — celebrated playwright Tony Kushner. The tempest involved some controversial Kushner comments on Israel. The Rag Blog’s Meeropol, who teaches at CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice, was one of those who nominated Kushner, and he gives us the inside story.
Thorne Webb Dreyer, Editor
SEARCH
RECENT POSTS
Alice Embree : THE VOTE | Voter suppression in Texas
March 25, 2021
JONAH RASKIN : OBITUARY | Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021)
February 23, 2021
Alice Embree : POLITICAL CRIME | Ken Paxton and the Three 'Enemigos'
February 13, 2021
Larry Piltz : VERSE | Bernie Sanders’ Victory Tour 2021
February 11, 2021
JONAH RASKIN : FILM | 'The War at Home'
January 28, 2021
JONAH RASKIN : FILM | Watch this movie: Dorothy Dickie's LNS
January 12, 2021
ARCHIVES