Politics

Martha’s Vineyard Migrants

My hometown was in the news this past week, when Florida governor Ron DeSantis evidently arranged to lure under false pretenses newly...

Maybe Not Doomed?

I remember the Cold War, thinking that at any moment I’d go outside and see something like the above (a screen cap from The Day After)....

Unspeakable

I try not to write about politics here. Not because I’m not interested; I follow it pretty closely. But I learned a long time ago, in...

Seth Abramson Ukraine Piece

If you’re interested in learning more about the terrible situation in Ukraine, here is a very insightful (albeit depressing) piece by...

Ukraine

I am certainly not going to be able to add anything meaningful to say about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...but it seems important to...

Crazy People

I don’t often write about politics here because it never does any good. I could do without trolls finding and attacking me, and I don’t...

Is Everything Terrible?

I was a young boy in the early 1980s, and I distinctly remember the dread of the Cold War—the feeling that any minute, now, we would look...

Depressing

A few days ago I had a depressing experience when a reader—and apparently I can count my regular readers on one hand—posted a comment...

Take Me to 9–11

Above: the chair (the white glider) where I sat and watched the news on 9–11. I once had an Internet date with a young woman who dabbled...