“The Plague of the Other”    Ecstatic Nation  by Brenda Wineapple is one of the finest histories I have ever read.  Numerous passages in t...

Friends,  I have just published my last and likely final collection of personal essays and reflections: "Pepperspectives: The Final Cha...

The Case for Grounding Ethics in Human Nature and Experience rather than Religion and Divine Commands???   Over the years, I have thought de...

  I was moved to write this reflection twenty years ago because of a coming together of conversations with my wife, Francie, and children an...

  Joseph Ellis’ biography of George Washington,  His Excellency  is a good example, at about 270 pages, how less can be better.  I compare i...

 I wrote this on Monday, 7/1, four days after the disastrous debate. A lot of reflection and a lot of emerging debate on the aftermath of Jo...

    This is a bold assertion.    And I would hasten to add that Trump is also the  vessel  for some of the good instincts in people.     The...