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Buy Our Book! American Sign Language Level 5: A Field Guide for Advanced...
Janna and I are pleased to announce our latest book is now available for purchase from Amazon — American Sign Language Level 5: A Field Guide for Advanced Communication Techniques for People with Other...
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Twitter Doubles Down on Bifurcation by Verification
In what has to be one of the oddest, and least nimble — but purposeful Public Policy gaffes and pre-planned Public Relations stumbles — Twitter have doubled down on the bifurcation of their service...
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Our Latest Book! Day One: Learning American Sign Language in 24 Hours
Our second American Sign Language book published in three weeks — Day One: Learning American Sign Language in 24 Hours written by Janna Sweenie and David Boles — is now available for purchase online as...
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Return of the Deaf-Mute: Our Next Deaf Culture Conversation
Did you know there’s a troubling, but rich, history using the term “Deaf-Mute” in America? Janna and I have written a new book “conversation” about that pejorative label released by David Boles Books...
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The Columbia University Strike of 1932
Many may remember the infamous, and violent, Columbia riots of 1968 — but few know about the strike two generations previous that overtook the Morningside campus in 1932. This is that story — told in...
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Columbia University in the City of New York 1931-1946
Columbia University in the City of New York was founded in 1754 as King’s College by royal charter of King George II of England. Columbia is the fifth oldest university in America and the oldest living...
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The 1968 Columbia University Riots
The 1968 riot and takeover on the Columbia University campus is still a rotting sore that ruins the day. The matter drowns in infamy and many wish it soon to be forgotten — much like the student...
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The Value of a Liberal Arts Education
We live in a sneering world where if one isn’t majoring in business or actively becoming a lawyer — one’s future is worthless and their worldview is infantile. Who needs a Poet when you can sell your...
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Call me a Nigger from the North
If you are easily offended by history, and the muscle memory mnemonics of words like — nigger — then you should not read the rest of this article. Over the many decades we’ve been publishing original...
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Performing Arts and Broadcast Entertainment Professors Should Not Compete...
One of the first things my friend, and mentor — and Columbia University in the City of New York professor — Howard Stein told me, was that he was once a produced, and award-winning Playwright, and when...
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We Are Our Works: Anthea Syrokou Responds
written by Anthea Syrokou [Publisher’s Note: In my recent, David Boles: Human Meme, podcast entitled — “We Are Our Works” — loyal listener Anthea Syrokou wrote a smart, and thoughtful, response to that...
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Notice of Civil Rights Violation
U.S. Department of Education via Fax I am writing to inform you of a Civil Rights violation that occurred on the campus of LaGuardia Community College on October 15, 2016, and was sponsored by the...
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1984: Murder in F-flat at the Daily Nebraskan
1984 was an interesting time to be alive, because you felt, every day, as if you were living in the George Orwell novel of the same name. Reagan was president, and the world seemed to be collapsing...
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Calcification of Sorrow
Life is about letting go, starting over, and grief on the way to the grave. In between those monumental stations of human being, we endeavor to find contentment, discover joy, and save friendships from...
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The University Does Not Belong to the Student
We all want to belong to something. We want to feel we are not alone. We want to believe we are part of a greater whole. However, there are some who believe the world, and its hallowed institutions,...
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2020: The Year of Disremembering and Disassembly
2020 has been a year of contemporaneous contemplation hanged by the bridle of dismay. We have been forced to leap from the cliff, together, Zombie-like, from crisis to crises. We drowned in foolish...
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David Boles Bells: Ring Them Boles Bells!
As the once great Bob Dylan proclaimed, in his lovely song, “Ring Them Bells” — Ring them bells, ye heathen From the city that dreams Ring them bells from the sanctuaries ’Cross the valleys and...
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Return to Chess After 44 Years
I retired from chess in 1977 at the age of 12. I wasn’t a pro player. I wasn’t in any tournaments. I was just a kid in Lincoln, Nebraska looking for a good game. I was studying the game eight hours a...
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Non-Fungible Tokens are the NFTs of Education
In my last article, I wrote admiringly about John Fetterman, and later that day he had a stroke; so I’m a little wary of writing about cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens again, lest they, too,...
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Learning Italian Lifetime Immersion Style
For the past 60 days, I have been intensively studying the Italian language. I want to learn Italian in order to better serve our ASL Opera project since 50% of the most popular operas were written in...
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