No matter how familiar the Shoah has become, no matter how it recedes into the past, it retains the capacity to surprise, to horrify anew. The title of Daniel Goldhagen’s…
My mother raised four sons (and their friends and dogs and rabbits…) in a rambling, wreck of a house in a small town with plenty of woods and fields surrounding…
US 23 runs flat and straight through large farms between Marion and Toledo, Ohio. When farmers fertilised fields with a winter’s hog manure, a young driver had 90 miles to…
Few things damn fiduciaries more than failing to ask obvious questions.When given their statements, advisors with money at Bernie Madoff’s firm should have asked for the bona fides of Friehling…
A New York Times op ed by Rebecca Harrington on the Harvard cheating affair quotes William James, one of the founders of psychology as a discipline. In a letter to…
I admire singers who take other people’s songs and make them their own. Most lack the empathy to express the emotion in the words they may sing very well. In…
N.B.: This series of short pieces commemorates the dull 90-mile run between Marion and Toledo, Ohio, on US Rte. 23. It became no more interesting, but unforgettable, when the farmers…