Essays

Call him Cassandra

By David R. Deropolous| 2021-11-28T00:56:53+01:00 November 27th, 2021|

An outspoken man in a Swedish auditorium and thoughts on post-Roman era “cancel culture” give contributor David R. Deropolous pause for thought.

By David R. Deropolous| 2021-10-15T00:38:49+02:00 October 11th, 2021|

Imagine a forest fire of unknown origin in which winds and climate abet the flames and the earth is scorched [...]

By Joel Stein| 2021-10-01T20:40:24+02:00 September 14th, 2021|

My increasingly scary 10-year-old Rebecca has officially entered her "Elon Musk" phase. It was probably there all along, just waiting [...]

By Joel Stein| 2021-10-01T20:40:24+02:00 August 7th, 2021|

When I finally reached a deal with my daughter to get an iPhone, or some derivation of it (she gave [...]

By Joel Stein| 2021-10-01T20:40:24+02:00 July 10th, 2021|

I sometimes take a break to watch old episodes of the crime show "CSI", which started out focusing on a [...]

By Joel Stein| 2021-10-01T20:40:24+02:00 June 3rd, 2021|

As some of you may know by now, my 10-year-old daughter takes precocious to another level. She especially loves watching [...]

By Joel Stein| 2021-10-01T20:40:24+02:00 May 15th, 2021|

My 10-year-old daughter Rebecca has become a devotee of Wikipedia. She's renamed her tablet Wiki and spends hours scrolling through [...]

By Joel Stein| 2021-10-01T20:40:24+02:00 April 6th, 2021|

Like many people on our delightfully benighted planet I've had no choice but to have COVID on my mind. Waiting [...]

By Joel Stein| 2021-10-01T20:40:24+02:00 March 13th, 2021|

As a single father to a 10-year-old girl I've learned it’s a really smart thing to find a secret place [...]

By Joel Stein| 2021-10-01T20:40:24+02:00 February 14th, 2021|

My daughter Rebecca has her first boyfriend and he goes by the name Casey, or Case: "it depends on how [...]

By Joel Stein| 2021-10-01T20:40:24+02:00 January 25th, 2021|

American football these days is much about brain health. If you happened to be an alien examining our barking species [...]

By Joel Stein| 2021-10-01T20:40:24+02:00 January 9th, 2021|

My daughter Rebecca, who turned 10 on New Year's Eve, has become my guide to the new world of verbs. [...]