When hype mars history
When it comes to exaggeration and hyperbole, the Russia-Ukraine conflict has only moved an emotional world further from critical thinking, writes John Freidlander.
Hubert’s weather
In the few years before his death in the mid-1990s, something extraordinary came over my uncle Hubert, who was born [...]
Come back, Good Humor Man
Strange times indeed when virus hysteria makes fear fashionable and leads moderns to forget how lucky they really are, argues John Freidlander.
A time for all bones
My dog Boz died the other day. Got up on a sunny Chicago morning and Boz was flopped like a [...]
Go to it, death-proofers
Donald Trump is out, or nearly. Happy now? I am: I hated his hair color choices. But here's a word [...]
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 chalk circle
I agreed only reluctantly to have dinner with a friend and several of his acquaintances on the last day of [...]
Hell no, we won’t stay
We wouldn't have stood for it. A week maybe, tops. We had no internet. We had no cable TV news. [...]