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How green was my valley
This is a cautionary tale, though it may not seem like one at first. In fact, at first it will be a tale about [...]
Thoughts on gender
I read little in my teens. Here and there a book about baseball while dabbling in my father's set-aside novels, books by Graham Greene [...]
M for Moderna
Though drug maker Moderna's announcement of its mRNA-1273 corona virus vaccine came a day after Pfizer made a similar (and more self-serving) announcement, the [...]
COVID of the mind
The 1989 movie “Field of Dreams” plays out in my home state of Iowa and at the time gave the sparsely populated state some [...]
Please quote me
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. • 18th-century English writer and moralist Samuel Johnson I am often asked [...]
To meat or not to meat?
Vegetarian. It's a controversial word for some. Well, okay, for me. During our French village isolation, nearly into month nine, with no end in [...]
A Gaullist in (thin) disguise
The latest Gaullist is no Gaullist at all, at least not on the face of things. He's a youthful technocrat who seemed to emerge [...]
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The coxswain’s push
In the days leading up to the U.S. presidential election, my mental scenarios weren't exactly cheerful. Riots because Donald Trump [...]
Please quote me
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. • 18th-century English writer and moralist Samuel Johnson [...]
To meat or not to meat?
Vegetarian. It's a controversial word for some. Well, okay, for me. During our French village isolation, nearly into month nine, [...]
Miracles on hold
Sitting in a hotel room in Orlando, Florida on a Saturday afternoon in November, I find myself at the very [...]
The 90 percent solution
A doctor is also a medical scientist. And all scientists need to factor in a healthy dose of skepticism before [...]
Out of the ashes
You could almost hear the wails coming from the prime minister’s office in New Delhi in October. It was a [...]
Uncle Joe’s heavy burden
Joe Biden may or may not ably and effectively manage the ever more bumptious United States, but what matters for [...]
A Gaullist in (thin) disguise
The latest Gaullist is no Gaullist at all, at least not on the face of things. He's a youthful technocrat [...]