My father instilled in me the love of freedom of thought and ideas. A staunch anti-communist and Eisenhower Republican, he…
I earned my stripes as a cosmic adventurer. I didn’t go to Woodstock, but a few weeks before, at Atlantic…
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One of Winston’s Churchill’s duties as First Lord of the Admiralty was to submit names for new navy ships to…
After a war, even one fought for the highest of principles, civilized people long to return to civilian life. Good…
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…