Treat trade treaty texts like Rorschachs and you’ll discern Black Helicopters. But instead of Blue Helmets, they’re filled with pin-striped Armanis. *** This morning, the Boston Globe…
I started this post on Wednesday, a brilliant late fall day just as Nov. 22, 1963, was in southern New England. Like everyone else alive that day, I…
On October 6, 1925, President Calvin Coolidge delivered a speech in Omaha to the national convention of the American Legion. He defended four concepts his audience –…
How Dickensian was your boarding school? That this question, hotly debated between ages 13 and 18, persists in my peers’ seventh decade says much about their schools’ capacity…
Rarely, one comes to a novel from watching a movie based on it. Even more rarely does a very faithful movie – a superb film – lead to…
The best way to honor America’s military dead – whether those who died in service or those who returned to civilian life – is to gage how our country…
On this day in 1933 Sara Teasdale died. Teasdale is largely forgotten – a great injustice, I think – except by those who’ve read Ray Bradbury’s short story in The…