A Reason to Keep Going
“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.”~Viktor Frankl
Society & Culture
How Much Mariano Rivera Did Not Want to Talk to Me
I thought I would take this slow moment to tell a baseball story—at a time when the names of Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, and (the most perishable of these names) Scott Brosius are not yet lost to common memory.
How to Restore the Art of Conversation
“We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.”
The Rage over “Adolescence”
What disgusted a handful of people about one of the best recent shows on television—and what that reveals about us
Entering Other People’s Churches
A Dickensian outing with the ghost of Easters past.
What If Harvard Went Out of Business?
Harvard, which has America’s largest university endowment, of at least $53 billion, might be seen as best-suited to defend its autonomy from federal demands, but then that is one of the very reasons it is a primary target.
The New Pandemic
Whoever thought a financial crisis would feel just like a pandemic?
The Vilified Elite…Poodle
Want to understand what tore this country apart? The fate of the poodle is your fable.
A Parlor Game for the Times: Whose Psyche Is Darker?
Would you rather be manipulated or punched in the gut?
Professor Snyder is Not Fleeing the Country
The U.S. administration, destabilizing and unjustifiable in nearly all its actions, said Yale historian Timothy Snyder, “at its depth comes down to hero worship”—of Putin, Musk, Trump—but in the end we are sacrificing ourselves, “our children, our grandchildren, the possibility of life on earth….”