• Rich Barlow

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    Rich Barlow is a senior writer at BU Today and Bostonia magazine. Perhaps the only native of Trenton, N.J., who will volunteer his birthplace without police interrogation, he graduated from Dartmouth College, spent 20 years as a small-town newspaper reporter, and is a former Boston Globe religion columnist, book reviewer, and occasional op-ed contributor. Profile

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There is 1 comment on Trump v. Clinton Subject of Tonight’s Gitner Lecture

  1. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend tonight’s event but I would have raised this point:

    The trend in our culture that uplifts and celebrates the disrespectful has clearly contributed to the rise of someone like Donald Trump: People say whatever they want on social media; accepted vocabulary on primetime TV shows would have, in another era, been considered obscene and completely offensive; and we may make a mockery of the office of the presidency by ‘requiring’ candidates to appear on shows like Saturday Night Live, and, when they’re not appearing as themselves, we impersonate them (although I have to say that Alec Baldwin has provided some great entertainment).

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