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Author: Frank Kovarik

Frank Kovarik teaches high school English in St. Louis, where he lives with his wife and three daughters. He blogs at Corresponding Fractions.
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Stop kidding yourself: Trump will not be a normal president

November 12, 2016 Frank Kovarik 2016 Election Leave a comment

I believe that many of those who “held their noses” and voted for Trump believe that he didn’t really mean all of the vile

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Ferguson: How I’m going to discuss it in my classroom

August 17, 2014 Frank Kovarik Cities, Civil Rights, Education, Literature/Arts/Film, Missouri region One comment

Yesterday from 12:15 to about 2:15 in the afternoon, I marched with about a thousand other people from the spot where Mike Brown was

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Obama: Calm, cool, and hated for it

November 8, 2012 Frank Kovarik 2012 Election, Campaigns, Good government, Ideas, Obama, Uncategorized Leave a comment

Back on August 8, 2012,  I published a piece on Occasional Planet in which I pondered the intense hatred that President Barack Obama inspires

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Where’s the real Romney?

August 21, 2012 Frank Kovarik 2012 Election, Campaigns, Politics Leave a comment

Remember in 2008 when the process of running for President seemed to drain John McCain of most of the qualities that had once made

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Hating Bush vs. Hating Obama

August 8, 2012 Frank Kovarik Ideas, Missouri region, Obama, Poverty, Voting/Elections 8 comments

During the administration of George W. Bush, I remember feeling a more or less chronic sense of despair and incredulity at the state my

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Disney, Obama and the American dream

July 24, 2012 Frank Kovarik Charity & Justice, Civil Rights, History, Ideas, Obama, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Visiting Disney World with my family last week, I took in the show at the Hall of Presidents in the Magic Kingdom’s Liberty Square.

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When slaves sued for freedom: A city reckons with its past

April 4, 2012 Frank Kovarik Civil Rights, Courts, History, Human Rights, Missouri region 3 comments

In Memphis, they’ve turned the hotel where Martin Luther King was murdered into a museum honoring the Civil Rights Movement. Across the South, “Civil

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Evil and the garden

November 1, 2011 Frank Kovarik Civil Rights, History, Missouri region 3 comments

The other day I took a bike ride along the Riverfront Trail in St. Louis.  The trail runs north from Laclede’s Landing, following the

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Racial politics and Obama: A new era?

May 25, 2011 Frank Kovarik Civil Rights, History, Ideas, Obama, Politics 2 comments

Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, published in 1965 two issues on “The Negro American.” Some 56 years later,

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Obama’s moral understanding vs. Bush’s swagger

May 2, 2011 Frank Kovarik International, Obama, Politics 7 comments

Watching the coverage of President Obama’s speech about the killing of Osama bin Laden, I find myself in agreement with various friends (on Facebook

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