W.D. Ehrhart

by W.D. Ehrhart Readers may remember the essay of mine that The New Hampshire Gazette published on May 30th called “A Part of You Will Die with Us,” prompted by a letter written by a Palestinian woman named Rawand Gawad Abu Ghanem and finding its way to me via the playwright Naomi Wallace and the scholar and anthologist Lorrie Goldenson. Rawand’s letter details the terrible hardships and dangers she and everyone living in Gaza have had to endure since October 7th, 2023, when the government of Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) began what has become the utter destruction and decimation of Gaza …

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from around the United States June 14th, 2025 sent to me by various friends & acquaintances proving that a significant number of Americans still care about things like democracy, the Constitution, law & justice, fairness, tolerance, decency, honesty, kindness, caring, and all the other virtues so sadly lacking in too many of those who govern our country, and in those who support them. We cannot, however, allow June 14th to be a once-and-done event.  We must find the courage to make our actions equal our words. Each time each of us has a decision to make—be it large or small, together or alone—we must try …

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by W.D. Ehrhart Several days after the inspiring day of No Kings rallies all over this country, in which millions of my fellow citizens took to the streets to let our government know that what is happening to this country is not okay with a whole heck of a lot of us, I learned that senior Democratic Party leaders including Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, and the Clintons were stuffing their faces with caviar, Wagyu beef, and truffle agnolotti at the wedding of the son of billionaire George Soros. Wait! Really? That’s how the Democratic Party leadership spent the day? Hobnobbing with …

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by W. D. Ehrhart Soon after I heard that the Kleptocrat-in-Chief had ordered U.S. Marines to Los Angeles, I sent this e-mail to pretty much everyone I know: “The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 is a U.S. federal law that restricts the use of the military for civilian law enforcement within the country. It prohibits the use of federal troops to execute civilian laws unless explicitly authorized by the Constitution or an Act of Congress. “Marines deployed against American citizens in the streets of the United States of America. I have never before been so ashamed of the Marine Corps or of my having once …

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by W.D. Ehrhart “What’s in a name?” Juliet asks in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. “That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.” But what the heck did Shakespeare know?  “U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Participating In Combat,” read a recent headline. According to this story, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says that gender characteristics, courage, tenacity, dependability, reliability under fire, the warrior spirit, what have you, are all determined by one’s name. And thus, only soldiers with masculine names are fit to serve in combat. Our Fox TV “presenter” and “personality” never completed Ranger School, …

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by W.D. Ehrhart Just today, I received an e-mail from my friend Lorrie Goldensohn,1 who had received an e-mail from her friend, the playwright Naomi Wallace,2 who received an e-mail from her friend Rawand Gawad Abu Ghanem,3 a Palestinian living in Gaza. “I hope you’ll post this letter,” Lorrie writes, “in as many places as you think would be interested in this heartfelt cry from someone still lucky enough to be alive in the hell that we are all constructing in Gaza.” You will find the letter below, but first here is information you ought to know about the writer of the letter Lorrie is …

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