Shmuel Klatzkin

I earned my stripes as a cosmic adventurer. I didn’t go to Woodstock, but a few weeks before, at Atlantic…

“You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone,” sang Joni Mitchell many a decade ago. It’s a very old…

Constitutions deal with the real world, which is never as simple as an attractive idea. But a constitution that is…

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…

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…