It’s time to make New Year’s resolutions. I’ll try a different approach and outline some of my hopes and dreams for 2023. On the personal front: That my non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma gets fully cured (all signs look good) and that my other physical ailments (I’ll spare the gory details) remain bearable. That Tina and I remain […]

I won’t hazard a guess as to whether it achieves immortality like “grassy knoll” or “hanging chads,” but surely the phrase “bomb cyclone storm” will remain in the public consciousness of those who endured its cruelties. We’ll laugh about this someday, but right now an awful lot of Americans have a “single digit” they’d like […]

Decades ago, Holocaust scholar Hannah Arendt warned: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, i.e., the reality of experience and the distinction between true and false, i.e., the standards of thought, no longer exist.” With that quote […]

Some years are sure to end up in historical memory. 2022 is one of them. Russia launched a land war in Europe long after people thought that World War II had ended such conflicts. The economy underwent basic changes as people began to deal with the true costs of what they need and want. And […]