Danusha V. Goska

Facebook friend David was talking about how great it is to be a Marine. David uses present tense, even though it’s been years since he’s been in uniform. There

I approached this lecture, semester after semester, with the focus of a medieval knight challenging the dragon threatening to incinerate the village. I needed

Tom Hanks is the highest-grossing non-superhero American film star. Hanks has received enough honors and awards to fill twelve Wikipedia pages. Hanks is

Recent years have seen eruptions of violence and hate in America: riots, looting, the tearing down of statues. Often those rioting are privileged white youth.

A very big family in a very small house: my childhood home. The youngest of six, fights terrified me. Four older brothers, all over six feet, athletes, hunters

On October 16, 2020, in a Parisian suburb, a Muslim refugee decapitated 47-year-old schoolteacher Samuel Paty. Previously, during a lesson devoted to freedom

Riots broke out in the spring of 2020. Rioters burned city blocks to the ground, shot David Dorn, a black police officer, to death during a Facebook livestream

BLM activists and their supporters allege that America is “systemically racist” and must undergo a cleansing purge in order that a new Utopia may be

In recent days, America has produced an astounding spectacle. Americans desecrated and demanded removal of their own statues to their own heroes, including

“American cities should burn to the ground in revenge for the death of George Floyd.” When this sentiment came through my Facebook feed, I checked the

After the May, 2020, killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota, fire and vandalism swept the nation and the world. Those

On May 25, 2020, white police officer Derek Chauvin was video-recorded while arresting African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mahmod

Dear Facebook Friends, Mark, you sent me educational materials insisting that Bernie Sanders is a socialist, not a communist. Communists are bad;

Sohrab Ahmari was born in Iran, grew up Muslim, immigrated to Utah in the United States, became a Marxist, left Marxism, became a conservative journalist, and

On Sunday, January 5, 2020, I was one of an estimated 25,000 protesters participating in the Solidarity March against antisemitism. Chilled and tightly packed

Husband: “Ya fired the cleaning woman!” Wife: “She was stealing!” Husband: “But she’s colored!” Wife: “So?” Husband: “So the colored

December 26, 2019, the day after Christmas, those Americans who emerged from their holiday celebrations to check world headlines were in for a shock. Police

“My whole body was suffocating. My head throbbed, and my skin oozed sweat from every pore … dressing like the kuffar was evil. I would go to hell if I dressed

In August, 2019, I read an article in the New York Times entitled, “Amid the Kale and Corn, Fears of White Supremacy at the Farmers’ Market.” I used to shop at

If you enjoy gritting your teeth, balling your fists, and throwing objects across rooms, you’ll just love Douglas Murray’s latest, The Madness of Crowds:

America needs a good book entitled How to Fight Anti-Semitism. Though Jews make up 2.2 percent of the US population, Jews constitute 60 percent of religiously

In its September, 2019 issue, Smithsonian magazine published a celebratory article about the reburial of a 42,000 year old skeleton named Mungo Man.

A hundred community members crowded my local library’s public meeting space. Thirty or so toddlers nestled in the laps of their moms and dads in the rows of

I spent 1988-89 as a student at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. In 1988, before the wall began to crack, Poland had felt as it had felt on