Love in vain?
I always liked Valentine's Day. I liked it even though I knew it was a marketing gimmick cooked up to [...]
On art and Elders
Some years ago, President Barack Obama ruffled feathers when he used art history as an example of an unproductive — [...]
Rebecca’s Electrical College
I first introduced my daughter Rebecca to the idea of the American Electoral College three years ago, when she was [...]
Liberally lucky
It began with relentlessly recycled footage of a hijacked commercial jet slamming into a New York City skyscraper, followed by [...]
Thoughts on “Smart” teaching
Late last summer I sat down to think about how I'd teach my psychology classes in the coming semester. We [...]
Bugs, butterflies, and wisdom
In the past month, I’ve encountered two big roaches in my car. A while ago, I wrote about my fear [...]
Italy and COVID: Strike two
Advocates of the so-called herd immunity strategy to combat the novel coronavirus might want to take pause from their declarations [...]
The I in me
Near-blindness makes the masked people look like mutants. The store innards seem to me like a place occupied by a [...]
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 [...]
Damn Yankers
Dear Major League Baseball, I have tried to keep my temper under control, but since the murder of George Freud [...]
Parsing a Republican past
I grew up in Rockford, Illinois, in shouting distance of free-market guru Milton Friedman’s Chicago. The “Paleo-conservative” movement, focused largely [...]