Issue 292: Finding the right vessel for new capabilities
The “power to grant reprieves and pardons” has become another source of political brutishness.
In his Iran speech Wednesday, President Trump asserted much and argued for little. There were some boasts, some threats—“We are going to hit them extremely hard. . . . We’re going to bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong.” And some of what appeared to be magical thinking: “When this conflict is […]
An Oklahoma couple has run afoul of a state law protecting funeral-home operators.
Issue 292: Knowledge flows downhill anymore
Diluting democracy’s foundational belief in individual agency opens the door to governmental overreach.
Issue 291: Spend them like you mean it
A memory from the Massapequa, N.Y., public schools of the late 1950s and early 1960s: We had regular desk drills. The school alarm would pierce the air and teachers would instruct us to slide from our chairs, crouch under our desks facing the floor, and place our hands, fingers interlocked, over our necks. This was […]
Thoughts on Iran have to begin with the awe we feel, again, for the U.S. military. Its professionalism, cool and courage are impressive and inspiring. And we must give Donald Trump his due: His decision was bold, he took a big swing. The end of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and scores of his colleagues-in-hellish-rule isn’t bad […]
Learning to Practice Life in Small, Delicious Pieces
It helps with the stress
It really was one for the books