A very funny play called The Man Who Came to Dinner had a two-year run on Broadway in 1939-40, enjoyed international success, and became an acclaimed movie. The plot concerned an overbearing media personality who’s [ Read Article ]
America was a curiosity country in the nineteenth century, attracting such figures as Alexis de Tocqueville, Charles Dickens, and Rudyard Kipling. By the end of the century, it was a world power. Its own elite, [ Read Article ]
So, what’s a fellow to do these days? Donald Trump was riding high a few months ago. He had what he liked to call a booming economy—booming, that is, for billionaires, with a stock market [ Read Article ]
A dark wind is blowing through this country, and what destruction it will finally bring we can only await. Before the coronavirus descended on us, we were already in crisis. We had endured three years [ Read Article ]
In 2000, Vice President Al Gore conceded a disputed presidential election to George W. Bush after the U.S. Supreme Court effectively ended his legal challenge to the Florida vote by the Republican State Secretary who [ Read Article ]
A recently posted comment by a CNN analyst, Stephen Collinson, seemed to me to sum up our current state of affairs: At a time of tribal politics and during a presidency that has evolved into [ Read Article ]
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