
Boomer Blaming: Is It All Our Fault?
ColumnsI have ruined America, apparently. Not single-handedly. I and my 76 million co-conspirators born between 1946 and 1964. That was the theme of a recent edition of Ezra Klein’s New […]
Russell Frank’s columns for StateCollege.com won first place in the column-writing – non-daily category of the 2021 Society of Professional Journalists Keystone Pro Chapter Best in Journalism contest. The winning columns: On the Waterfront, a Mysterious Fate; Hakuna Matata in Thessaloniki; The Names of the Lost. A collection of Frank's columns, titled “Among the Woo People: A Survival Guide for Living in a College Town," is available from the Penn State University Press. Frank is a member of the journalism faculty at Penn State. Before launching his academic career, he worked as a reporter, editor and columnist at newspapers in California and Pennsylvania. He is, by academic training, a folklorist (Ph.D., UPenn), which means, when you strip away the academic jargon, that he loves a good story. His views and opinions do not necessarily reflect those of Penn State University.
I have ruined America, apparently. Not single-handedly. I and my 76 million co-conspirators born between 1946 and 1964. That was the theme of a recent edition of Ezra Klein’s New […]
I always think of my parents at this time of year, both because it’s between their birthdays and because it’s Passover. Nettie Frank would have been 99 on March 26. […]
Friday, March 12, 2021. Two weeks since my second shot. I finish a midday Zoom and stick my head out the back door. One hubcap-sized slab of ice remains on […]
A year ago this week, when we were carefree and young, I picked an apple, a banana and an orange from bins outside a small market on the Greek island […]
It’s another beautiful week in Central Pennsylvania. You think I’m kidding? On Sunday afternoon, my sisters and I began planning a long-overdue family reunion. Meryl lives in Dallas, where the […]
I’m half-vaxxed up with no place to go. Word spread around State College a couple weeks back that Geisinger’s Lewistown hospital was taking vaccine appointments for those in the 1A […]