When systems still mattered
Two fairly recent and unrelated global transformations, one ideological, the other technological, are responsible for facilitating the at-times outsized reaction [...]
Pull the plug on AstraZeneca
There's no other way to put it: AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine is in deep trouble. While other massively circulated vaccines, including [...]
The Italian dream conversation
I have found myself up against a reality I thought had set aside when I returned to the United States [...]
Anything but coasting
I’ve never been a thrill-seeker. I’ve even been called a stick-in-the-mud. As a fourth grader at my school’s annual carnival, [...]
War on Death, trending
Like many people on our delightfully benighted planet I've had no choice but to have COVID on my mind. Waiting [...]
The mangling of Medusa
When the bronze statue of a fierce, snake-haired, naked woman armed with a sword and holding the freshly decapitated head [...]
My daughter the antibody
As a single father to a 10-year-old girl I've learned it’s a really smart thing to find a secret place [...]
Rethinking the Vikings
An algorithm recently suggested that I learn about the Vikings. I took its advice and have just finished listening to [...]
James and Peggy in the Latin Quarter
This is excellent, wrote my bass teacher, sending me a link to an article about American writer James Baldwin’s relationship [...]
On rules and AstraZeneca
Now that millions of us have been fully vaccinated, we're chomping at the bit to get back to a normal [...]
The loophole called “merit”
An American student studying in Rome came in for counseling some years ago. Her family couldn’t afford her tuition. They'd [...]