27. Father Knows Best: Walter Lord
To get to New York we retraced our off-to-Spain steps of four years before. Only this time, without my mother [...]
Because you can
Since the West went to war to excise its two cancers, Nazism and Communism, its moral compass malfunctioned, jiggered by [...]
Keeping it real
California is an Officially Weird Weird state. I sometimes get the feeling it was colonized by disciplinarian aliens who tried [...]
26. Father Knows Best: The “Californian” in the Dark
As a lover of old magazines and illustrated books, I found subjects of interest my father never discussed. In a [...]
On Kissinger
My father roundly disliked Henry Kissinger. Hindsight suggests this was prompted, at least at first, by the young Kissinger's more-than-willing [...]
25. Father Knows Best: Home and General
Though my mother was gone and my switchboard heartbreak was still raw, home remained a sweet place, mostly because its [...]
Misunderstanding General Giáp
Amy Bernstein was over and under and into the moon, and I was, by chance, the only boy within reach [...]
24. Father Knows Best: Marcia
My tiff with Pussy Galore and Mrs. Conte came not long after Samantha’s tomboy reassurances had seemed to defang the [...]
Vengeance unleashed
Israel makes war under the cover of a legacy of victimhood. With impunity and at times indiscriminately, it attacks all [...]
23. Father Knows Best: Misunderstandings
With my mother now a resident of Neverland, camped out in Europe by choice and what she might do next [...]