Max’s burden
Here is a Rome corona-anecdote whose numbers will one day fill volumes and be wryly recited. My plumber Max cannot [...]
With Underwood aforethought
A not especially subtle American president made a very shrewd move the other day. Breaking from his immoveable optimism about [...]
An Eastertime dirge
The meaning of life is that it ends. • Franz Kafka, dead of tuberculosis at age 40. It is the [...]
Healing a sick new world
Here is what many know but few can say aloud in an enlightened age that disavows bluntness: any resourceful virus, [...]
18 years after 28 days
Danny Boyle's plague-driven 2002 film "28 Days Later" comes with an alternative ending. In the first, the sole survivors of [...]
Rome: Not with a bang but a whimper
What, you ask, is it like to live in a diminished Rome in which a disruptively contagious virus has been [...]
Metaphor in a mine
The blind man entombed in the coal mine is not aware of his predicament, at least not precisely. He begins [...]
One but not likely done
My Polish-born mother had two unassailable pet theories, that mortality would ignore you if you refused to acknowledge its existence [...]
Raging toward a second act
Despite impeachment and East Coast disdain, Donald Trump stands a strong chance of re-election, at least if history is allowed to vote.
