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A Consequential Moment for Humanity in Time and Space
The world has rarely seen the kind of turmoil and challenges it faces today. Wars, geopolitical strife, climate change, mass immigration, the culture and politics of “hate,” and so much more shadow our...
View ArticleHenry Kissinger, RIP
Most of us, in setting out to write a doctoral dissertation, the final great requirement on the path to a Ph.D., perhaps the first real step in a dreamed-of academic career, approach it narrowly. Most...
View ArticleHenry Kissinger: Eight Decades of Service to American National Security
Henry Kissinger began contributing to America’s national security during World War II. After fleeing Nazi Germany in August 1938 at the age of 15, attending George Washington High School and City...
View ArticleThe Puzzling Jurisprudence of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
Retired Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor died Dec. 1 in her home state of Arizona, at the age of 93. Justice O’Connor was the first woman to serve as a Supreme Court...
View ArticleAll in the Homily: On the Death of Norman Lear
I learned about the television industry the hard way as a kid. One Monday night in 1968, I turned on the TV to watch my favorite show, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. For three and a half years, I’d enjoyed...
View ArticleI Loved Norman Lear
For most of my long-vanished youth, I watched very little television. But in my late twenties, when I was a teacher and a resident preceptor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, I began to...
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My Super-Woke Ideas Helped Kill My Former Girlfriend
Last month I had a feeling that something terrible had happened to one of my most beloved former girlfriends, Sherri Schultz. I looked for her on the internet and saw that she’d recently died. A couple...
View ArticleA Tip of the Cowboy Hat to Toby Keith
Country music giant Toby Keith died peacefully of stomach cancer Monday in his native Oklahoma. He was 62. He’s survived by his wife, Tricia, and three children. His family was with him at his death....
View ArticleRIP Joe Lieberman: A Man of Principle in an Unprincipled World
Politics is tough on principled people, just as it was on former U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, who passed away Wednesday at 82 years old. The rough and tumble of Athenian democracy bred the idea that...
View Article‘Where Do We Get Such Men?’: Lou Conter, Last USS Arizona Survivor, Dies at 102
News that Lou Conter, the last survivor of Japan’s attack on the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, died at age 102 reminds us that the generation that fought in the most destructive war in history is fading...
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