Editorial: Trump’s ‘intolerable’ assault on Harvard won't stop at the Charles River

(This editorial first was published in the Dorchester Reporter on May 29, 2025)

• Dorchester’s present-day First Parish Church is the descendant church of one of the five congregations that founded Harvard College in 1636.

In a year when the arts have been stormed by political forces, the literary arts remain strong and dry, writes Arrowsmith Press in announcing the publication this month of Thomas O'Grady's “Coming Ashore: New & Selected Poems.”