Essays

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

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

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

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

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

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

To be hoisted by one's own petard is an archaic if colorful little way of suggesting being burned by one's [...]

Even in modern times, humans and their leaders imagine security as a place away from madding crowds outside or below, writes David Deropolous.

My daughter Rebecca is waiting for the pregnant pause to give birth. I tell her it's not happening but she's [...]

In a show of stubborn snarling representative of old Europe at its fractured worst, Poland and Hungary have threated to [...]

The latest Gaullist is no Gaullist at all, at least not on the face of things. He's a youthful technocrat [...]

I first introduced my daughter Rebecca to the idea of the American Electoral College three years ago, when she was [...]