Essays
Rebecca and C-Bro
My daughter Rebecca has her first boyfriend and he goes by the name Casey, or Case: "it depends on how [...]
Someone call the emperor
American football these days is much about brain health. If you happened to be an alien examining our barking species [...]
Give the girl a deer
My daughter Rebecca, who turned 10 on New Year's Eve, has become my guide to the new world of verbs. [...]
Great expectations
To be hoisted by one's own petard is an archaic if colorful little way of suggesting being burned by one's [...]
Still on hilltops
Even in modern times, humans and their leaders imagine security as a place away from madding crowds outside or below, writes David Deropolous.
Rebecca’s pregnant pause
My daughter Rebecca is waiting for the pregnant pause to give birth. I tell her it's not happening but she's [...]
A most imperfect union
In a show of stubborn snarling representative of old Europe at its fractured worst, Poland and Hungary have threated to [...]
A Gaullist in (thin) disguise
The latest Gaullist is no Gaullist at all, at least not on the face of things. He's a youthful technocrat [...]
Rebecca’s Electrical College
I first introduced my daughter Rebecca to the idea of the American Electoral College three years ago, when she was [...]
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 [...]
Apres mois, les avocats
Power of attorney is granted by one person to an anointed surrogate in the event the figure charged with decision-making [...]