I posted this blog initially almost eight years ago. Sadly, we have become even more polarized, globally and nationally. Will we learn to s...

By the time one reaches my age, you have often been asked the question: "What is it that gives you the greatest joy?"  My immediat...

The newspapers over the weekend very rightly featured photographs of the Buffalo Bills players, and the Bengals players, too, assembling in ...

  I read two opinion-pieces in the Wall Street Journal this weelk that came together for me in a surprising, sobering and meaningful way; li...

  Yuval Levin’s book,   A Time to Build:  From Family and Community to Congress and a Campus, How Recommitting to our Institutions Can Reviv...

 There was much in this book which I find a guide post on how to live a good life.  Jon Meacham’s Biography of Abraham Lincoln:   And There ...

  A Chance Encounter Leads Me To A Mind-Opening and Spirit-Confirming Book   I was walking out of one of the Sloan Kettering buildings with ...