Christopher Orlet

A Midwesterner coming of age in the 1970s probably did not grasp that society was slowly unraveling, though I suppose…

Last week I happened to be attending a conference at a Midwestern medical school. Everywhere one looked there were smartly…

The phrase “boys will be boys” has taken on ominous overtones of late. In reference to the underclass, the phrase…

You know you have reached the summit of middle age when the once simplest tasks become insoluble problems. We were…

Some months ago the novelist Philip Roth told an interviewer that he had stopped reading fiction. Here was arguably America’s…

Increasingly one gets the impression that he is living in a third-world country. Last week I went to have my…

Probably not what Dr. Martin Luther King meant when he spoke of being “free at last.” Last week, a judge…

“I could never live out there,” says my neo-bohemian friend, his words conveying a profound sense of horror. “It’s too…

Last week Venezuelan President for Life Hugo Chavez suggested the U.S. government gave him cancer. This is a nutty statement…

The homeless man stood unsteadily in the church vestibule reeking of cheap wine. In the chancel, the choir was singing…