We now see just what the most evil space in the human soul can hold: beheading infants, stripping and raping young girls, and then lassoing them around the neck and then dragging them behind trucks on rocky pathways until they…
Rosh Hashanah Almost every night, late at night, I watch documentaries about the biggest event in the history of the world, World War II. This was not that long ago. I was still alive in its closing months since I…
In 1953, my parents commissioned a famous D.C.-area architect named Mr. Palms to design the perfect fifties Modern house on Harvey Road in Silver Spring. Harvey Road was — and is — just off Dale Drive between Colesville Road and…
Hard to believe. But it’s been barely two months since Tommy died, the victim of modern life. I feel as if I have a cinderblock in the middle of my head. It’s getting worse, not better. Why? What made him…
It’s late Tuesday night here in Beverly Hills. The air is thick with humidity. I feel as if I could reach out and grab the air. The news is all about a hurricane that was supposedly brewing in the Baja…
In the United States of America, there are roughly 3,150 counties. Most of them have prosecutors or district attorneys. Each one of these can usually empanel a grand jury. These grand juries can, with rare exceptions, meet in secret to…
Long ago and far away, there was a more or less endless series of wars between Israel and the surrounding Arab states. Israel was wildly outnumbered by its enemies. The then–Soviet Union had supplied the Arab states with top-of-the-line modern…
As some of you know, I had a famous father, the economist, wit, and writer, Herbert Stein. I write about him a great deal, especially in these inflationary times, I write about his epigram: “If something cannot go on forever,…
Sunday I am just a few hours back from speaking to the kindest, smartest, best-looking people on this earth, the men and women of St. Barnabas Charities of Pittsburgh. Day by day, here in Los Angeles and on the road…
Easter I am pretty darned old by now. Seriously old. 78. I often feel pretty bad about it. I am weaker. I have less endurance of any kind. Cruelly enough, food does not taste as delicious as it used to…