The Hope And Wonder Of The Moon Landing

The fleeting but profound sense of community we felt the night man walked on the moon. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  [View in Browser]( | [Donate [WBUR]]( [WBUR](  [WBUR]( July 21, 2019 Your weekend bonus edition of WBUR Today: Dear Cognoscenti reader, This weekend we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. Julie Wittes Schlack watched it at summer camp, with friends, on a scratchy black and white TV. "For one fleeting moment, the moon landing was like the moon itself, raising a tide of joy, advancing a labor that birthed a [sense of wonder]( she writes in a haunting essay about what we've gained and lost since. — Cloe Axelson, Cognoscenti co-editor newsletters@wbur.org The Rundown url[We Can't Mute Trump, But We Can Turn Off Fox News]( The focus on the president's racist messaging is under-inclusive, writes Kent Greenfield. Fox News deserves blame, too.   #%23%23[Twitter](  #%23%23[Facebook](    [The Fleeting Hope And Wonder Of Man On The Moon]( When Neil Armstrong set foot in the moondust, we instinctively looked away from the television, trying to see him standing on the moon with our own eyes, unmediated, writes Julie Wittes Schlack. [We Created Border Orphanages]( The recent U.N. condemnation is a heartbreaking twist on how our country, which once set the gold standard for human rights, is now being investigated for violations, writes Kari Hong.  Support the news [The Red Sox Were The Last Baseball Team To Integrate. This Is How It Happened]( Sixty years ago this month, the Boston Red Sox became the last team in Major League Baseball to integrate. Walter C. Carrington writes about the investigation that changed the Red Sox forever. [I Am From Here]( Using xenophobia to mobilize white, working-class voters is dangerous, writes Neema Avashia. It implies that you can only be “from here” if you are white, or if you are brown and silent. [The Conscience Of Harvard]( Colleges have shied away from enacting moral truths, writes Alexander Heffner, but in 2019, they're realizing scholarship isn't enough. Bookmarks "But a crucial part of being careful is being accurate, clear and direct. When confronted with racism and lying, we can’t run and hide in the name of neutrality and impartiality. To do that is a dereliction of duty." ("[Tiptoeing around Trump’s racism is a betrayal of journalistic truth-telling]( Margaret Sullivan for The Washington Post) "The term 'busing' is a race-neutral euphemism that allows people to pretend white opposition was not about integration but simply about a desire for their children to attend neighborhood schools." ("[It Was Never About Busing]( Nikole Hannah-Jones for The New York Times) "Perhaps mothers rush to clean stuff up to protect their progeny from contaminants." ("[Men Know It's Better To Carry Nothing]( Lisa Miller for New York Magazine) A MESSAGE FROM WBUR CITYSPACE 7/30: Veteran journalist Glen Johnson is coming to CitySpace. He covered John Kerry’s four-year term as Secretary of State, taking more than 100,000 photographs, from the Vatican to the Kremlin to No. 10 Downing Street. Johnson will share stories (and photos!) from his new book, "Window Seat on the World: My Travels with the Secretary of State" with WBUR State House reporter Steve Brown. [Buy tickets here.]( “ Our country has the history and capacity to treat immigrant children humanely. It will be a test for our collective morality on whether we do so again. — Kari Hong, "[We Created Border Orphanages]( ICYMI [It's 90 Degrees In Anchorage. John Muir's Beloved Alaska Is Melting]( If John Muir were alive today, he would shed a tear for what is lost and burn with anger at the subversion of nature in the name of progress, writes Frederick Hewett.      If you’d like to write for Cognoscenti, send your submission, pasted into your email and not as an attachment, to opinion@wbur.org. Please tell us in one line what the piece is about, and please tell us in one line who you are. 😎 Forward to a friend. They can sign up [here](. 📣 Give us your feedback: newsletters@wbur.org 📨 Get more WBUR stories sent to your inbox. [Check out all of our newsletter offerings.]( Support the news [WBUR]( [WBUR]  [WBUR]( [95289b97-66e8-43d4-a174-3bc3520a79a9.png]( [Instagram](  [Twitter]( [Facebook]( Want to change how you receive these emails? [Stop getting this newsletter by updating your preferences.]( I don't want to hear from WBUR anymore. [Unsubscribe from all newsletters.]( Interested in learning more about corporate sponsorship? [Click here.]( Copyright © 2019 WBUR-FM, All rights reserved. You've signed up to get WBUR Today, a daily morning news briefing from WBUR. We hope you enjoy! Our mailing address is: WBUR-FM 890 Commonwealth AveBoston, MA 02215-1205 [Add us to your address book](