The coronavirus pandemic has upended everyone’s life for more than a year now, but for me, it seemed easy enough to maintain some control over how it affected m...
It's been quite a couple of weeks. The inauguration of Joe Biden on Wednesday brought to a close some of the most momentous events in the nation's history. Not ...
We can change the world, Re-arrange the world (It's dying) If you believe in justice (It's dying) And if you believe in freedom (It's dying) Let a man live his ...
My wife and I were lying in bed one night with the lights off when she heard a sound coming from behind her. We squinted into the darkness toward the source and...
Don't look now, but there's an election coming up, and Rosebud Media wants to help you navigate it. As stressful and frustrating as it is to be cooped up at hom...
Although "The Gift Outright" became well known in 1961 when Robert Frost read it at JFK's inauguration, he published it in 1941. He regarded it as a patriotic p...
When poet Wendell Berry wrote "A Discipline," the nuclear arms race between the U. S. and the USSR was threatening to extinguish humankind. "Turn toward the hol...
After graduating from Cal-Berkeley, I spent most of a decade teaching high school English to adolescents - discussing books, reading their essays, and following...
Having worked with considerable success to rid myself of the prejudices with which my culture infected me as a child, I developed still another as an adult: you...
In my last column I shared my dark fantasy of Donald Trump sitting behind the Oval Office Resolute desk, staring off into the distance, unwilling to fully grasp...
Three days after his first election, Barack Obama issued an executive order banning torture. What he wouldn't do was expose publicly the gruesome reality of the...
Starting in 1978, the risk posed to humankind by nuclear weapons has made claims on my concern, time and energy. Because there were overlapping dangers between ...
It's time to say it: An agent of a hostile foreign power occupies the White House. Before I proceed, two things. First, Russia's hostility to us is almost entir...
I watched closely as State Department Foreign Service officers have stepped forward to give their sworn depositions behind closed doors to the House Intelligenc...
Most service professionals have clients. Uniquely, physicians have patients. In England (and English), this usage dates back to at least the 14th century. It ar...
A brief backstory: The 1983 decision to construct Daniel Meyer Pool (DMP) in Hunter Park was predicated on the belief that it should be a seasonal public outdoo...
In "The Final Days," Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's account of what occurred in the White House as Nixon's presidency lurched toward its end, they reported t...
Part One. I recently read an opinion piece in the New York Times by two professors of law, Ganesh Sitaraman (Vanderbilt) and Anne L. Alstott (Yale), in which th...
On Nov. 15, Peace House will hold its annual Peacemaker Awards Dinner. These dinners began in 2012, when Peace House celebrated its 30th anniversary. For severa...
In the rush of the passing seasons, sports memories fade like photographs left in sunlight. But before memories of the 2019 World Series are bleached by time, l...
