One of the most durable phrases in the Pentagon’s Vietnam War–era arsenal of euphemisms consisted of two words, protective reaction. [...]

My father had a favorite phrase when coming upon people and situations that defied all common sense. “Cloud cuckoo land,” [...]

The lame-duck Biden administration’s position toward embattled Ukraine is now cynically clear: provide that country with as much authorized military [...]

In the eleventh hour of his presidency, Joe Biden has given Ukraine the green light to use American short-range missiles [...]

In the modern dialect of sportswriting, the concept of desire has come to play a critical role. An upset, whether [...]

In the early days of autumn, my friend and helper made a trip to my local Rome supermarket to pick [...]

This month marks my father’s 125th birthday. Born in 1899, he came of age during World War I, a time [...]

Insults, imprecations, and slurs arise from a variety of dank basements. Racial, cultural, or national, they focus on stabbing at [...]

Dear is dead. Time for it to now as much as pack up two centuries of introductory conceit. Email’s telegraphic [...]

Journalists miss civilian air crashes. They can’t and won’t tell you this, of course. That would be in macabre bad [...]

In August 1968 my father ferried me from Washington to New York and deposited me on a nonstop Pan Am [...]