OPINION | PAUL GREENBERG: Memory
Memory is not the mere recollection of fact, as anyone who's tried to record his memories will know. As in a dream, the landscape alters. Dates are jumbled, lo…
Memory is not the mere recollection of fact, as anyone who's tried to record his memories will know. As in a dream, the landscape alters. Dates are jumbled, lo…
There are some dates everybody remembers. National holidays, Christmas and New Year’s and the like. Festive dates and dates not so. Birthdays, wedding annivers…
Editor's note: Paul Greenberg, former editorial page editor of the Pine Bluff Commercial and retired editorial page editor and columnist for the Arkansas Democ…
Editor's note: Paul Greenberg, former editorial page editor of the Pine Bluff Commercial and retired editorial page editor and columnist for the Arkansas Democ…
Editor's note: Paul Greenberg, former editorial page editor of the Pine Bluff Commercial and retired editorial page editor and columnist for the Arkansas Democ…
Editor’s note: Paul Greenberg, former editorial page editor of the Pine Bluff Commercial and retired editorial page editor and columnist for the Arkansas Democ…
Editor's note: Paul Greenberg, former editorial page editor of the Pine Bluff Commercial and retired editorial page editor and columnist for the Arkansas Democ…
Editor's note: Paul Greenberg, former editorial page editor of the Pine Bluff Commercial and retired editorial page editor and columnist for the Arkansas Democ…
Editor's note: Paul Greenberg, former editorial page editor of the Pine Bluff Commercial and retired editorial page editor and columnist for the Arkansas Democ…
Editor's note: Paul Greenberg, former editorial page editor of the Pine Bluff Commercial and retired editorial page editor and columnist for the Arkansas Democ…
Editor's note: Paul Greenberg, former editorial page editor of the Pine Bluff Commercial and retired editorial page editor and columnist for the Arkansas Democ…
There are some dates everybody remembers. National holidays, Christmas and New Year's and the like. Festive dates and dates not so. Birthdays, wedding annivers…
(Editor's note: Back by popular demand, one of the classics from the Paul Greenberg collection. This column first appeared July 12, 2006.)
There are some dates everybody remembers. National holidays, Christmas and New Year's and the like. Festive dates and dates not so. Birthdays, wedding annivers…
Over the weekend we lit the first candle, for Sunday was the first night of this minor eight-day Jewish holiday that's become a major one in our time. Maybe be…
It's one thing to bore ever indulgent readers, but quite another when a columnist begins to bore himself. Despite all the fabricated hullabaloo he may try to s…
It was an honor and pleasure to be asked to lecture recently at a university like Auburn in Alabama. But just between us, it made me uneasy.
I'm on probation. For it's that time of year when Jews put themselves on trial before the High Judge, so I write today's column from the dock, being my own acc…
Cliff Fannin Baker died as had lived: hard at work trying to restore the repertory theater company he had founded to fiscal and artistic health. The roar of th…
If it pains my friends and family to have to watch as I hobble about, one can now only imagine the discomfiture my old dentist and friend Richard Lewis must ha…
Soon it will be time to pay at least lip service to the trials and tribulations encountered by Americans of Asian descent throughout American history. To quote…
Has there ever been a people that speechifies more about the joys and satisfactions of work and the work ethic, yet is so enamored of labor-saving devices?
John Sydney McCain III (1936-2018), according to the headline in Arkansas' Newspaper, "dies at home." But where was his home? In Arizona, where he passed durin…
Like the classic structures of ancient Greece and Rome, the remains of the Hotel Pines in Pine Bluff could tell many a story of a glory that was. And shall be …
If you've got a bunch of Turkish lira, now's the time to get rid of them in favor of the good old American dollar. For our supposed ally seems mired in a host …
Here is the quote of the week and maybe of the year. It comes from the invaluable Weekly Standard:
Peace, it's wonderful--if only the troublemakers would give it a chance to take hold.
Robert Banks Jenkinson, aka the second Earl of Liverpool, saw, made, and went through a lot of history in his crowded time. As prime minister of Great Britain …
Theodore Edgar McCarrick got away with his act for decades as he rose through the ranks of the Holy Mother Church, covering up not only his own sins but those …
The 3-year-old son of a rabbi who's visiting this obscure corner of the diaspora already stands tall and straight--like the proper mensch he is becoming, compl…
The death of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has been predicted regularly over the years since its creation at the height of the Cold War and even invit…
Who will save Arkansas' historic landmarks if her own people won't? That's the question raised by the historic bridge at Clarendon, and the answer is still in …
He's just a political hack, his Democratic opponents say about Brett Kavanaugh. Which is what they were saying about him more than a decade ago when he was see…
The way Gabriel Canas, a bus driver from gang-ridden El Salvador tells it, he was doing his job back home when his bus was attacked by the MS-13 gang. So he to…
Talk about a real head-scratcher of a problem: Just mix together all the disparate elements of the plight of children separated from their families for good re…
Again and again, brave Thai divers plunged into the murky waters of a flooded cave to search for a soccer team and its coach in the dark depths. At last, after…
"I could have fit this all in my [Chevy] Suburban," commented this state's perennial campaigner for unnecessary if not mischievous change. At the time he was p…
Here come the book-cullers, a species far more dangerous to this state's literary, political and cultural heritage than the ordinary book-burners. For they ope…
Three score and eight years after North and South Korea found themselves in a deadly embrace to determine which would survive the Korean War/Police Action, the…
Let's hear it for the Supreme Court of the United States, which now has given the green light to state governments so that they can start collecting billions o…
By divine decree, the year is divided into two parts: the good old summertime and the off-season. Happily, we in the northern hemisphere are now entering the g…
The opening of the Arkansas Bar Association's annual convention this year ended with a grand party as lawyers got a lot of play money to flash around as they p…
Paul Manafort isn't the first prominent political personage to be advised that, no matter what else he may do, never, never lie to the FBI or violate his oath …
The best word for this American administration may be mercurial. If not, it'll do till a better term emerges to describe its chief executive and master deal ma…
Now it can be told, and indeed has been told by a U.S. Senate subcommittee on investigations. The last administration publicly pretended that it was standing f…
The body count continues to grow as desperate migrants continue to seek some way to make it to the European continent despite all the obstacles in their peril-…
A wise man named Henry David Thoreau once suggested the best way to appraise the value of an education in this frequently all too natural state. He compared it…
Isn't this where we came in? It's definitely time to head for the nearest exit when the movie starts bearing an unmistakable resemblance to the one you've alre…
To hear Arkansas' secretary of state tell it, all went well at the polls in this month's primaries: The number of Arkansans voting was up over the tally record…
John Stuart Mill, a liberal in the old and better sense of the word, once tried to explain the difference between what too many of today's upwardly mobile conf…