Warning: This blog is long and in part contentious The Politics of Pain:   Post-War England and the Rise of Nationalism  b...

I’m reading a book of literary criticism, written by George Steiner, a long-term columnist of  The New Yorker .  In introducing his book,...

The newly published book  Why We’re Polarized  by Ezra Klein underscores what I and all of us have come to see as a reality and does so with...

The Perilous Assault on Ethical Standards and Integrity—At Least Vote to Formally Censure The President's Conduct February 4, 2020 ...

The Trump trial has been draining. Today it has also become depressing as I witness the abandonment of integrity. Why do I say this?  In...

THE VITAL ROLE A COMPANY—AN INSTITUTION LIKE PROCTER  & GAMBLE—CAN  PLAY IN OUR LIVES TODAY Yuval Levin, the editor of  National Affa...

While I wrote this on New Year's Day, 2020, I posted it initially on the day celebrating the life of Martin Luther King.  His life remin...