Articles tagged: robert faber
Column: Minimizing the tactics, emphasizing the goals vital for future of country
Posted: May 13, 2013Despite the limited evidence of principles directing the game of Politics, it remains the only acceptable route to democratic governance. Read more »
Opinion: Age cannot be determining factor in trying out new things
Posted: Nov 18, 2012"Nowhere to go but up”—one of those reassuring old cliches contrived by irrational optimists to ease the pain after hitting bottom. It is used to replace total surrender to what appears to be the final ... Read more »
column: Old age must be approached with positive outlook to make the most of it
Posted: Oct 17, 2012Old age may be restful or frightening or boring, but however it plays out, growing old is simply a fact of life — if we’re lucky. Until we reach that stage it is more an ... Read more »
column: Americans' generosity, traditions of humanity beginning to come off a bit outdated
Posted: Sep 17, 2012Editor's note: Robert Faber writes occasional columns for AnnArbor.com about aging, politics and other issues. Beginning in grade school, we learned that ours is the wisest, most generous, most humane nation in the world. Graduation ... Read more »
column: Individual attitudes within nation illustrate prejudice as well as balance
Posted: Sep 05, 2012Editor's note: Robert Faber writes occasional columns for AnnArbor.com about aging, politics and other issues. Unfortunately, those old reliable “eternal truths” just don’t cut it anymore. It used to be that words of wisdom from ... Read more »
COLUMN: The main business of government is the people
Posted: Jun 23, 2012It was President Calvin Coolidge in the early 1920s who asserted that “the business of America is business.” If they had television in those days he would have been the target of all the late-night TV comedians, but we now discover that he was not necessarily foolish or glib - just prescient. Read more »
Column: Define your senior years by not letting your age define you
Posted: Jun 09, 2012Editor's note: Robert Faber writes occasional columns for AnnArbor.com about aging, politics and other issues. The most common complaint of my contemporaries — aside from arthritis and memory loss and failing sight and hearing — ... Read more »
OPINION: Gay marriage in America: A measurement of citizenship
Posted: May 23, 2012I didn't know him, but I do remember the talk surrounding him, the ridicule enveloping him. He was in my high school during my years there in the early 1940s and I remember that the talk was antagonistic and hinted at violence, although I was unable to confirm the fact of it. We didn't use the term at that time, but he was gay. Read more »
OPINION: Looking back and recording the past can help seniors move forward
Posted: May 17, 2012Editor’s note: AnnArbor.com contributor Bob Faber writes occasionally columns about aging, politics and other matters. About almost everything, we have choices. We can ignore them or use them or abuse them — and that’s another ... Read more »
OPINION: A matter of principles: Keeping the new Joe McCarthys at bay by learning the lessons of our past
Posted: Apr 12, 2012One of the intellectual benefits of aging is the ability to draw on experiences that had gone well or badly during our periods of growth, then to interpret our conclusions as universal truths. Such contrived insights are not a natural by-product of memories recorded and reexamined, but can effectively serve as a valuable guide for the future. And if judgments gained from those unsealed memories pass as wisdom, that may not be too far off the mark. Read more »
COLUMN: Finding the good in people amid the hell of war
Posted: Mar 15, 2012Editor's note: Robert Faber writes occasional columns for AnnArbor.com about aging, politics and other issues. Facing me on the wall of my office is the front page of the New York Times from Sunday, March ... Read more »
COLUMN: Anti-war protests of the 1960s and '70s changed the political face of Ann Arbor
Posted: Feb 15, 2012Time magazine recently declared "the protester" as its "Person of the Year" for 2011, citing worldwide protests including the Occupy Wall Street movement. But the modern movement has nothing over the 1960s and '70s in Ann Arbor, Robert Faber says. Read more »
Column: A changed world for seniors
Posted: Jan 29, 2012Editor's note: Robert Faber writes occasional columns for AnnArbor.com about aging, politics and other issues. The world, it is a'changing. We all know that. We’ve seen it ourselves and we had it verified by the ... Read more »
Column: Politicians must aim higher than personal glory
Posted: Jan 15, 2012Now that we’ve grown older and can see things in the light of real life experiences, we seniors understand that the reality of politics is nothing like they taught us in school, so perhaps we should change some of the rules of the game. Read more »
Column: Old age - the start of something new
Posted: Jan 01, 2012Most seniors have learned a lot in the seven or eight decades they had spent building their futures, but some of those lessons no longer apply. It used to be that one good way of relieving our financial burdens, for example, was to work longer hours or change jobs, but that doesn’t work too well for those of us in our 80s. Even buying cheap start-up stock in some future “Yahoo” or “Google” is appealing, but being unable to reap the rewards of those investments for the 10 to 15 years it will take those companies to grow does tend to throw a damper on the project. Read more »
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