Beginnings, Endings, and the Words in Between

I'm not a Middle Eastern scholar...or a scholar, period. This fact is not necessarily a liability since most Middle Eastern experts who...

Once again, the time is ripe to resurrect the old Lynyrd Skynyrd/Neil Young debate over Alabama—whether it really is a "sweet home" or...

Robert Hur, who oversaw the 2023/2024 investigation into President Joe Biden's alleged mishandling of classified documents, boasts a BA...

Near the end of a football game, when all seems lost, the trailing team will often attempt a long forward pass in hopes that some...

Like most Americans (and I should qualify that by admitting that by "most" I mean those not encumbered with the term minority, I had...

We hardly had a week to digest Donald Trump's "Rot in Hell" Christmas address when we were forced to confront his New Year's babble—laced...

Salary: Good. Job Security: Nil A word, if I might, about Elise Stefanik, the Republican representative whose rant against three college...

To lay our current intolerant, thin-skinned, and superficial attitudes at the feet of Donald Trump is to oversimplify, for I still debate...

I know. I get it. With the Middle East exploding and our system of government under siege, with the proliferation of guns threatening us...

I don't expect anyone to shed tears over the recent sentencing of Proud Boys members, Ethan Nordean and Dominic Pezzola. A total of 28...

I generally steer clear of sports commentary for three very good reasons. First, I've read the great ones—Bob Ryan, Frank DeFord, Mike...

When I first listened to "The Last Resort " by the Eagles, nearly five decades ago, I had never heard of Lahaina. Because there was no...

In the run-up to World War II (and even during the fighting), the British aristocracy was more than sympathetic to fascism. It was not...

Many of my readers include former students from my days teaching English at Plainville High, and if they remember me, they certainly...

Think of all the heroes we have crowned since 2017—all those men and women who were going to see to it that Donald J. Trump faced...

It seems impossible that four years have passed since the New York Times published the 1619 Project, a study whose goal was to reframe...

*from "Song for a Winter's Night" by Gordon Lightfoot. In the nation to our north—the one that has given us Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen,...

I am not overjoyed at the prospect of another Biden candidacy. Still, the systematic erosion of human rights by the current version of...

Last week I tried to enter the bubble. The gun bubble—that hazy, somewhat blurred, and always bulletproof sphere that protects the gun...

The reinstatement of Justin Jones, the Democrat from the Tennessee House of Representatives ousted from his position for a raucous...