London’s Savoy Theatre will always be associated with the musical comedies of Gilbert & Sullivan which built it. Their topsy-turvy had to be transporting because the Savoy’s seats were designed…
What happens when an essential part of the social safety net frays or disappears? A conversation with my son, Jotham, a lawyer who’s handling some Workers’ Compensation cases, got me…
Marcia Angell is a doctor, a crusader for reform in medicine, a fine writer and a first-rank muckraker. I’ve admired her work for years. Going through a…
On a filthy March afternoon, a group gathered at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge to look at the Cemetery’s restoration of monuments to Civil War dead. …
Today with great reverence I wish to thank Dr. Jonas Salk and those who preceded and followed him in the struggle to control polio. For as The Writer’s…