Marcel J. Harmon, Ph.D.
Marcel is a former partner and co-founder of the now defunct Human Inquiry, an anthropological consulting firm formerly based in Lawrence, KS and Knoxville, IA. He has a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of New Mexico and is also a licensed engineer. Marcel also writes on a variety of contemporary issues from an anthropological perspective. In addition to his contibutions here at the American Chronicle, you can also view his occasional musings at the blog Cultural Commentary.
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Articles by Marcel J. Harmon, Ph.D.
January 12, 2010
In light of what is going on with Proposition 8 in California, a little perspective on the history of marriage is in order.
July 19, 2007
I’m outraged – again.
I recently finished reading Seymour Hersh’s piece in the June 25th New Yorker on Army General Antonio Taguba’s investigation and resulting report regarding the Abu Ghraib scandal. In the third to last paragraph, Hersh quotes Taguba as follows: “’There was no doubt in my mind...
April 26, 2007
Imagine teaching in an elementary school with classrooms cold enough during the winter that your students struggle to write because their little fingers “don’t work well” in the cold. And just down the hall students in another classroom doze off because the room is too hot and stuffy.
Imagine wat...
November 27, 2006
The general consensus within the scientific community, as exemplified by statements from organizations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the national science academies of the G8 nations, and the US National Research Council, is that the majority of global warming occurrin...
November 13, 2006
This commentary of mine originally appeared on the site, "BlackintheCty.net," on May 18, 2006, shortly after Michelle Goldberg's book "Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism" came out. Though the results of Tuesday's elections indicate that the nation's political pendulum is once again s...
September 27, 2006
On the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, President Bush again used the memory of the crumbling twin towers to defend the war in Iraq. In describing an enemy bent on bringing "death and suffering into our homes," the president stated:
"If we do not defeat these enemies now, we will leave our children...
September 06, 2006
What does it say about a nation, where from 2000 to 2004, the overall extreme poverty rate grew by 20 percent, or 3.6 million people? Where one in eight citizens (and one in four blacks) lived in poverty last year? Where, since 2000, the number of children living in poverty has grown by 11.3 perce...