Thirty years ago, before the term “woke” was coined into the American lexicon, when “virtue signaling” was unknown, and when (mostly white) boys and men weren’t quite yet considered the root of all evil, the Disney corporation floated the idea…
In 1984, the Democratic governor of Louisiana, Edwin Edwards, coined what became known as a standard rule of politics. Weighing the high odds for his reelection, Edwards said, “The only way I can lose this election is if I’m caught…
My apologies to Oscar Hammerstein, whose song “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from his great 1945 musical Carousel with Richard Rodgers not only is one of the great triumphs of the American musical theater but later became the anthem for an…
It started back in the 1980s with the construction of Aker Brygge, a tourist-trappy wharf on the Oslo Fjord packed with pricey restaurants and bars. In 2008 came the eye-catching, blindingly white Opera House, which, poised at water’s edge, was…
Some people, even anti-Semites, almost ridiculously go out of their way to get medically treated by Jewish doctors or legally represented by Jewish attorneys. Not having any other leads or referrals, especially if uncomfortable navigating Yelp recommendations, those individuals believe…
Medical school education in the United States is top notch, with a wide range of excellent teaching institutions that hand out thousands of medical degrees each year. I remember my own years at the University of Louisville School of Medicine…
We are over-inundated — not just inundated, as in a deluge or a Category 5 hurricane, but over-inundated — with virtue signaling that tells us that our humanity and compassion can be gauged only by whether we join up with the LGBTQIA+…
I was born on the shores of the Atlantic, in La Coruña, a city in northwestern Spain that is home to the oldest working Roman lighthouse in the world. It’s called the Tower of Hercules because legend has it that…
Former President Donald Trump is being mocked for suggesting last week that we’d lose a war with Russia. Trump, with great regularity, uses words rather carelessly. But in this case, he’s probably right. With apologies to John Kennedy Toole, President…
