Virus prevention measures are becoming a culture in their own right, and little about it is hopeful.
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Fritter away
Have you noticed during this strange and surreal time that when a guest is with CNN's Christiane Amanpour (or on [...]
Never an empty bed
My father flew B-17 bombers over occupied Europe in World War II. The planes, which took off from primitive airfields [...]
The girl who isn’t
I'm getting ready to interview a man I hope will have sex with me. He's sweet, or so I'm told, [...]
Damn Yankers
Dear Major League Baseball, I have tried to keep my temper under control, but since the murder of George Freud [...]
The 100-year menace
Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we all have created, but that is not true, because [...]
Meet my voyeur
Hey, I found your nose. It was sticking in my business. Those of us old enough to remember the 1960s [...]
Listening for music
Some stories acquire their relevance and moral aptness only through repeated retelling, each recitation adding a density and lushness to [...]
Parsing a Republican past
I grew up in Rockford, Illinois, in shouting distance of free-market guru Milton Friedman’s Chicago. The “Paleo-conservative” movement, focused largely [...]