Catalytic Narrative

There is so much out there just now about Roy Cohn. I watched a documentary about Studio 54, and there are several about Cohn himself, and o...

Just now, like many of us, I'm holding my breath that Agent Orange won't carry on to drop his COVID nukes in Tulsa. The day after Ju...

I don't do puns. It's a brain-wiring thing. My brother in law can't help himself from punning. It's amusing until it becomes...

Let's think of it this way: we can never know ourselves as well as those who love us know us. There are certain kinds of self-knowledge ...

We can't have these conversations from home over the Internet. The teacher-student connection has been  terminally disrupted . Not that...

"We will never forget." I vowed solemnly and publically. I have never forgotten the horror of the Tiananmen massacre. A world see...

I've been madly reading Jill Lepore's These Truths , which reads like an owners' manual for these United States of America. I he...