Colman mccarthy biography books
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Colman McCarthy
When Colman McCarthy left The Washington Post in 1998, after nearly thirty years as a columnist, he had another fulltime job lined up—teaching Peace in America’s classrooms and lecture halls. He’d started teaching peace part-time in 1982 and by 2011 had instructed more than ten thousand students in what he calls “the other side” of the story.
“I’ve been accused of teaching a one-sided course,” he wrote in The Nation. “Perhaps, except that my course is the other side, the one that students aren’t getting in conventional history or political science courses, which present violent militaristic solutions as rational and necessary.”
McCarthy says adding a single course on peace to most any school’s curriculum is like “muscling” it in through “extraordinary flexing.”
“I recall speaking at a New England prep school and being told by the headmaster that he takes peace ed
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I'd Rather Teach Peace
I am a lapsed peace activist. I have retreated to primarily being a financial contributor to the peace and justice movement. inom am proud of my past activities and actions for peace that included community organizing and civil disobedience. inom am willing to bet that, like me, Coleman McCarthy would like to do more. I try not to feel too guilty that I am merely a cheerleader. Books like I’d Rather Teach Peace remind me of my heritage of radical activism and give me hope that a new generation will take the struggle from the present to the future.
Colman McCarthy was, for many years, a syndicated columnist for The Washington Post. He still writes sporadisk op-ed pieces. Last
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Colman McCarthy
American journalist
Colman McCarthy (born March 24, 1938, in Glen Head, New York[1][2]) is an American journalist, teacher, lecturer, pacifist, progressive, anarchist, and long-time peace activist, directs the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington, D.C. From 1969 to 1997, he wrote columns for The Washington Post. His topics ranged from politics, religion, health, and sports to education, poverty, and peacemaking. Washingtonian magazine called him "the liberal conscience of The Washington Post." Smithsonian magazine said he is "a man of profound spiritual awareness." He has written for The New Yorker, The Nation, The Progressive, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Reader's Digest. Since 1999, he has written biweekly columns for National Catholic Reporter.
Peacework
[edit]Since 1982, he has been teaching courses on nonviolence and the literature of peace. In the fall semester of 2006, he taught at seven scho