America is the greatest country in the history of the world based on God-given freedom. Our freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are now being assaulted on every front by mobs, high-tech censors, perpetuators of the cancel…
Socrates ran afoul of Athenian democracy, such as it was, and paid for it with his life. His student and admirer Plato learned the lesson and was more politically prudent. He did not lack greatness for that, nor did he…
Most Americans of all stripes flatter themselves that somehow we Americans are better than others. The sense that we are smarter, more civilized, built a greater country, just have something in us that makes us better because we live here….
I earned my stripes as a cosmic adventurer. I didn’t go to Woodstock, but a few weeks before, at Atlantic City Pop, I joined over 100,000 other adventurers for the lead-up to Yasgur’s farm in three days of music and…
When I was in college, the person I respected most was Ken Kesey. Everything hinges on consciousness. An unexamined life is not living. Kesey’s work was one great, creative exercise in revolutionary consciousness-raising. So it seemed in 1971. I was…
Here’s a story from Ukraine from over 200 years ago. It was the eve of the Passover holiday, and for the Jews of Berditchev, as for Jews everywhere, this was the busiest day of the year. Yet with only a…
My first familiarity with the words of the Book of Exodus, “Let My people go!” came from the African-American spiritual that we sang in the liberal Jewish temple of my childhood. The music was powerful, and the immortal words proved…
Americans are happier than ever before, and it’s all thanks to Ronald Reagan. This unexpected finding comes to us thanks to a study from the University of Warwick, in England. The Warwick researchers measured happiness by identifying, in over eight…
The absence of signage made finding it a challenge. It was a steamy-hot summer day on Okinawa. Leaving the comfortable air conditioning of the taxi, my sunglasses immediately fogged up. As a native of the American South, I am used…
