Last week I attended a preview of Robert Eggers’ new film, The Northman, in Minneapolis. I got in because I’m…
“I laughed, and then I asked Jen when she’d be giving me grandkids,” said my friend Ann. “She told me…
Recently I attended my first actual social function since the Late Troubles began. We were careful; we wore masks as…
One of my ancestors knew Abraham Lincoln. All right, that’s not strictly true. He was a collateral ancestor of mine,…
First of all, a confession. I’m not suffering all that much under the Lockdown, or Quarantine, or whatever I’m supposed…
I see that the New York Times recently made a “correction” to its much-ballyhooed “1619 Project.” The 1619 Project, of…
It was around 1973, and I was attending a small Midwestern college. This being the ’70s, the school was already…
If you make it to the end of Moby Dick (it’s been done), Herman Melville starts the epilogue with a…