Latin phrases describing behavior are much in the news lately, especially quid pro quo (something for something). There is a certain elegance to such usages, removing the behavior from smarmy to acceptable in polite company. That is, until the realities… Read More ›
Issues
Don’t Mess With Omas
By Barbara Baum Levine Editors’ Note: This article first appeared in the Democratic Women of Clifton & NOVA e-News, November 2019. OMAS GEGEN RECHTS (Grannies Against the Right Wing) Just when the world looked as though it was going to you-know-where… Read More ›
Political Self-Control Is Overdue
From inception, VoxFairfax has voiced concern about the tone, content, and conduct of political dialogue in the nation and, in particular, in the Commonwealth. Specifically, our concern was directed at the refusal or inability of political parties to exercise some… Read More ›
VA Confederate Statues to Receive Company
Editors’ Note: Reposted from the September 27, 2019, New York Times. By Reggie Ugwu He looks like a man lost in time, uprooted, with the horse he rode in on, from a previous century, perhaps, or was it a future one? In… Read More ›
Whistling Dixie The Virginia Way
By Frank Blechman Maybe our inclination as Virginians to deceive ourselves goes all the way back to the beginning. The very first settlers at Jamestown were not (to borrow a phrase from the 20th century) the “best and the brightest.”… Read More ›
Virtuous Corporation: Oxymoron?
Editors’ Note: Most would agree that, contrary to Mitt Romney, corporations are not people. At the same time, however, businesses are vital actors in society with responsibility to more than shareholders and investors. Workers, communities, and the environment are essential… Read More ›
Aristotle: Politics Is the Master Art
By Frank Blechman Here’s a shocking thought for you: Government policy has never been determined entirely by facts or science. Policy, made by people within a political system, has always been made with a heavy dose of politics. Sometimes those… Read More ›
Who Needs Ethics? The Commonwealth Has the Virginia Way
In early September, the Center for Integrity, a DC-based not-for-profit that advocates for transparency and ethics in the private and government sectors, presented its annual ranking of the nation’s 50 states with respect to ethical standards and enforcement. The rating… Read More ›
Elizabeth A. Gloucester, Richmond Native
1 She ran boardinghouses whose lodgers included members of New York’s elite, raised money for an orphan asylum at the center of Civil War riots in New York City, and was active in the abolitionists’ cause as an ally of… Read More ›