Blogger Protection Act of 2008
Two years after liberal Republican John McCain teamed up with liberal Democrat Russ Feingold to eviserate the First Amendment, a federal court…
A Precise Mind
This post contains affiliate links. For more information, click here. James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son is in many places marked by…
Art and Science on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Last week I enjoyed a kind of homecoming as I played tourist in my adopted home city of Washington, D.C. I started…
NIGHT, by Elie Weisel: An Intellectual’s Despair
This post contains affiliate links. For more information, click here. Elie Wiesel’s Night is an account of shocking horror and how it can…
Charlton Heston, A Personal Note
The world lost a class actor this weekend with the passing of Charlton Heston. Charlton Heston was a great actor, a gracious…
A Grief Autopsied
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion’s memoir of the months following her husband’s sudden death, is part grief journal, part literature…
SamSphere Chicago
The world owes a great debt to Sam Adams, the brewer-patriot who led opposition to British tyranny in colonial Boston. This weekend,…