The sentencing of the governor of Jakarta to two years" imprisonment for blasphemy may seem like a throwback to medieval intolerance, but it is far more than that. It is a ...
The first round of the French presidential election is done, and the results are monumental. A new president hasn"t been decided, but the political realignment launched by ...
To those who lived through that era that tore us apart in the ‘60s and ‘70s, it is starting to look like “deja vu all over again.” And as Adlai Stevenson, ...
My days of appearing in court as an expert witness in murder trials are over, but I am still interested in advocacy and am an admirer of advocates (contrary to a commonly ...
When it comes to how the right should deal with Hollywood leftism, Andrew Breitbart, much as he did on the night of his passing, took the long way home. He advocated a complex ...
It's difficult to know which part of me to trust these days: my intuition or my own lying eyes. The glut of "fake news" filling the web doesn"t make it any easier. ...
Still scratching their pointy heads over losing an election they were certain that history had preordained them to win, the Democrats are blaming everything except their own ...
What are all these celebrities still doing here? Didn"t they promise us they were gone if Trump won? So many of them said they were heading to Canada, street artist Sabo ...
This essay is intended solely for our male readership. Our three female readers can sit this one out. Go bake us a pie or knit us a sweater or something. Men: If Hillary Clinton ...
You can get angry with machines, especially when you haven"t the faintest idea how they work. They seem to break down out of spite, just at the wrong moment; it is as if they ...
In politics, secrecy and silence are becoming less practical, while noise and distortion are coming to dominate. Thus, the 2016 election raises questions of how strategies of ...
It often seems to me that the first qualification for producers of operas these days is proneness to severe lapses of taste, a kind of epilepsy of the judgment, or even a complete ...
From time to time I receive invitations by e-mail to attend conferences on something called medical leadership. "Do you want to be a leader?" ask the invitations, to which ...
The Bible tells us that our allotted span is threescore years and ten. Advances in medicine and public health"sanitation, for example"have made nonsense of this in the ...
I have a confession to make: I enjoy reading New York Times columnist David Brooks. (Wait, don"t hit the "back" button on your browser yet! I have a good point to ...
The Negresco is a beautiful rococo belle epoque hotel built around the turn of the last century on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, south of France. Even by today's plebeian ...