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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...