“Why did so few heed Churchill’s warnings about Hitler in the 1930s?” A routine question, it snapped me back instantly…
I’ve joined the Zoom world of COVID- 19 with a vengeance. Classes that used to be up close and personal,…
Half the planet having gone into lockdown must have shaken up Bob Dylan’s world even more than most. He has…
Unimaginable chaos reigns! Widespread, indiscriminate, and meaningless death! Despair! Economy in ruins! Looting! Neighbors attacking neighbors! Your home is not…
I hope you will understand: I am not an advocate for tobacco. But there’s an ember inside me that flares…
It’s day who actually knows of coronavirus quarantine, and my housemates and I are making our plans for once this…
There’s a remote outpost in the culture war as yet unassailed by the forces of wokeness. Soap operas have been…
The late Gertrude Himmelfarb, in her 1994 essay “On Looking into the Abyss,” needed only two sentences to diagnose the…
Something inside the copy of Alexander of Macedon, A History interrupted the clean stack of bound leaves of the nearly…
