Dan Rodricks

Inauguration Day 2021: I invited Dr. Brad Sachs to share his thoughts on the attack on the Capitol by the Trump mob just two weeks before Joe Biden's inauguration. He offers an interesting perspective and a challenge to our thinking about this. Guest commentary by Brad Sachs, a family psychologist based in Columbia, Md. One … Continue reading Psychologist’s view: Surviving the nasty divorce from Trump

In one of Donald Trump’s most grotesque displays of racism and hypocrisy, this vile president ramped up executions of men on federal Death Row -- the last four of them Black -- while pardoning the four white men who carried out a massacre of 14 Iraqi civilians. My Sunday column in The Baltimore Sun focused … Continue reading Trump’s final acts of racism and hypocrisy

The image of a Capitol police officer being crushed in a door by the Trump mob Wednesday afternoon should disturb everyone. It prompts this citizen to join with others calling not only for the impeachment of Trump but his prosecution for inciting the deadly riot. This dangerous president has announced that he will not attend … Continue reading Trump should face arrest and prosecution

Munich, Germany, November 8-9, 1923: The Beer Hall Putsch was a failed coup by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, his entourage and other Nationalists against the Weimar Republic. Hitler plotted to kidnap the Bavarian commissioner at a beer hall on the first night of the putsch. Some 2,000 Nazis marched on the city centre, hoping … Continue reading Quick History: The Beer Hall Putsch

There is a trail along home waters, the Big Gunpowder Falls in northern Baltimore County, that reaches out and grabs you. There are varieties of thorny bushes and clinging trees that love, even in the dormant winter months, to pull on your sleeve or grab your fly line as you walk by. If I was … Continue reading To the honest stranger of Grabby Trail: Thank you for my net and the reminder

Years ago, I asked Wally Vait, a fly fishing instructor and guide, if it really mattered whether you caught trout, considering how great it is just to be there -- to be in the water, the environment of the trout, and usually cool and clean water, and often shaded by big trees or crowned in … Continue reading Sometimes, fish don’t matter

What Republican Senators Hawley, Cruz and the rest of the rat pack have decided is this: They will aid and abet Trump’s proliferation of the Big Lie about the 2020 election in order to advance their standing among the #MAGA they hope to inherit for the elections of 2022 and 2024. They have announced the … Continue reading Aiding and abetting the Trump lie

(With earnest apologies to Bob Dylan) May God bless you and keep you. May your wishes all come true. May you find your way through darkness. And lead others through it, too. May we see a gold horizon, See our country start to mend. May we stay forever faithful  Faithful to the end. Farewell 2020, … Continue reading Forever Faithful

For me, it’s between the separation of migrant children from their parents at our border with Mexico and now the pardon of Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty, Nicholas Slatten and Paul Slough, the four Blackwater mercenaries (above) convicted for the 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left 14 Iraqi civilians dead and 17 wounded. Picking the worst … Continue reading Trump: The absolute worst