When I was in college, the person I respected most was Ken Kesey. Everything hinges on consciousness. An unexamined life…

During the ’30s and ’40s, a number of different people and institutions went around the U.S., and occasionally outside of…

John Wilkes was a real character. He fought the Swamp of his day, before it had its name, and he…

My generation grew up reciting a pledge of allegiance. Each morning we asserted that America is a nation “indivisible, with…

Arthur Koestler’s masterwork was Darkness at Noon. In it, he tells of an old revolutionary caught up in Stalin’s terror…

We reopened our building for public prayer on the holiday of Shavuot. We took a great deal of care in…

The Constitution sets out a way to have an effective government under which the citizens are still sovereign and their…

Now is the time of the biblical holiday of Shavu’ot, translated literally as the Holiday of Weeks, coming as it…

The premise behind our Constitution is that we humans are capable of governing ourselves. It is we, the people, who…

“A specialist,” said a wit, “is someone who knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything…