civic duty

Revisiting My First Blog Post Ever — How the Selective Service Made a Man of My Son

February 18, 2016 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

The powers that be at the Selective Service System were after my son. Read more.

A Case of the Human Condition: Choose Me, Please!

March 16, 2009 By Barbara Falconer Newhall

Jury duty is a lot like fourth grade softball. Something in me wants to be on the team. If there is choosing going on, I want to be among the chosen. Read more.

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For China’s Young Fashionistas the Cultural Revolution Is So Over

Until very recently, when I thought of China, I didn’t think of fun. I thought of the Cultural Revolution of the ’60s and ’70s, when traditional Chinese men were forced to cut off their queues, and intellectuals were banished to the countryside to till the soil and be reeducated into the proletariat.

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