Journalist – Historian – Speaker
I think a lot about how to process living through a global mass death event. I don’t know how to do it even for myself, but am pretty sure that we’re all experiencing levels of trauma, albeit in very different ways. I try to read stories of people we’ve lost until it gets too much. …
Yesterday, a gunman using an AR-15 style rifle killed 10 people in a Boulder, CO, grocery store. It was the 7th mass shooting in the U.S. in the last 7 days. Over the years, I’ve written a lot about guns. It started with some high profile attacks on college campuses, when editors turned to me …
This week we buried my father-in-law and I wrote a very difficult essay about loss. Every single death, in all contexts, covid or not, has been shaped by this pandemic. We can’t mourn, we can’t access the community we need to process loss, and the trauma of all these delayed and denied rituals will carry …
Late in the Superbowl, Jeep broadcast one of those ads that promote a message and hope that if they make you feel, you’ll buy a car. Here, in an ad called “The Middle,” featuring Bruce Springsteen – a man from New Jersey – driving a jeep to the center of the continental U.S. in Kansas, …
From shortly after the election until at least 1/6, and arguably until the soldiers filled the streets of D.C. and made it clear they weren’t supporting a putsch, Donald J. Trump and his supporters tried to stage a coup. The efforts unfolded in court houses, in demonstrations, in federal government offices, in Congress, and finally …
The University of Colorado – Colorado Springs, is hiring an Assistant Professor of Special Education. They do not want disabled people to apply for the job. The job ad reads: “Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand and walk. Employee is occasionally required to have long …
There’s Covid-19 in our house. We caught it because the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) wrote “may” instead of “must” into a special education guidance document. We caught it because our school district decided that “may” would equal no for them. We caught it because when forced to choose between abandoning our son’s education or …
“The average salary of a professor with a PhD (before benefits and admin support costs) is $141,476, though some make much more, and roughly 50% of full-time faculty have tenure.” Excuse me while I work on combining laughter and vomit. It’s not going to be pretty. https://t.co/BWbdoBz95K — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) July 19, 2020 …
Last week we went up north and I didn’t catch a walleye. I tried really hard. Three times I got up at dawn, once with a paid fishing guide. I rented a good fishing boat with a fish and depth finder (sonar). I bought minnows, leeches, and worms. I tried various live and fake baits. …
David Perry is co-writing a new single volume history of the Middle Ages. Our mission: Kill the myth of the Dark Ages for once and for all! The official announcement: “Historians Matthew Gabriele and David Perry’s THE BRIGHT AGES, a single-volume history of the middle ages that recasts the long misunderstood period of human history …
