Last night marked a coincidence I couldn’t help but note, a little personal victory on the eve of my Mom’s birthday, which is today. I won’t be celebrating her with cake, but I must say … Read More
A Solution for the Trump Election Freakout
You wouldn’t know it from the stock market’s record-breaking tear since Hillary Clinton snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, but the mood among Trump-averse Americans remains bleak. Blinkered with rage and disbelief because Clinton … Read More
Reflections of an Anti-Trump GOP Delegate
It’s been a rough last few months, and I’m not just referring to the alarming presidential contest between the two most egomaniacal, morally-compromised and disliked candidates in electoral history. Perhaps it’s divine intervention that I’ve … Read More
Kindergarchy and Our Clash of Civilizations
With the civilized world reeling from the Islamic State’s “no-lives-matter” terrorism, it’s worth recalling how General George Patton inspired college-age G.I.’s to vacate their safe spaces for D-Day’s virtual suicide mission. Rallying them to Think … Read More
The Pope and Bernie Sanders: Misguided Economic Missionaries
If only Pope Francis were in my Buenos Aires taxi last Christmas. I could have used his moral authority (and Argentine-accented Spanish) in negotiating with a driver who’d forgotten the “Golden Rule.” And in witnessing … Read More
How Do You Measure A Life?
Thank God for dirty jokes, especially the two my mom insisted I tell anyone willing to listen as I motored her through a storm of diagnosis and decision-making last month. Distracting us from the stress … Read More
Search For Truth Amid the Propaganda
At a recent 11,000-strong Netroots Nation conference, irate activists booed off the stage presidential candidate Martin O’Malley for proclaiming “black lives matter, white lives matter, all lives matter.” That O’Malley was jeered for his echo … Read More
Are Americans Still in Charge of Our Lives
Amid unending political horserace punditry – who’s up, who’s down in the wake of Supreme Court rulings, Congress’ Trade Promotion votes, Iranian nuclear negotiations, and the racist Charleston massacre – let’s Think Again about the … Read More
Graduation Advice For Troubled Times
It’s not a Mad Max world into which students are graduating, but it’s a Mad, Mad one, fraught with genocidal fanaticism, proliferating scandals, and morally deficient leadership. As terrorists claimed swaths of Iraq and Syria … Read More