
Vic Henningsen
CommentatorVic Henningsen is a teacher and historian.
For commentaries from Vic from before April 2013, visit the VPR Archive.
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Vermont's mountains were in tough shape. Delicate ecological areas like the arctic-alpine zones on Mansfield and Camel's Hump were being pounded by tens…
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It seems that the President is again considering a national emergency declaration as a way of circumventing Congress to secure funding for his border…
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The Shutdown is forcing both sides to embrace possible solutions to a problem neither particularly wants to solve. President Trump demands a border wall -…
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President Trump made a mistake going after Chief Justice John Roberts in a recent Twitter storm. When the president denounced a member of the Ninth…
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It was a tough year for apples on this side of the hill, but a banner year for squirrels. We have a lot of apple trees, but the two closest to the house…
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The Kavanaugh confirmation drama reminds me of a capsule movie review of Dead Reckoning, a deservedly forgotten Humphrey Bogart thriller: “Everyone gets…
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For the most part, the formal Kavanaugh hearings were a poor example of our democracy at work. Judge Kavanaugh was magnificently evasive: bobbing and…
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Nearly identical appeals come from both Left and Right. “Only your contribution NOW can stop Brett Kavanaugh from savaging your rights!” Or, “Only your…
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In 1793, the ruler of the Earth’s richest and most powerful nation met with a delegation from what was then part of the developing world seeking to…
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In troubled times, people often turn to history for guidance: surely, they think, the past has some instructive message for the present. But historians…