The Main Point

Last night in rainy London I saw new friends from Mexico visiting here for work.  I want to go back, next time to the Yucatan, and then agai...

For years I've been reluctant to wade in and address some tendentious and shoddy commentary about the beginnings of The Paris Review, a ...

... that would be Lebanon.  It took the Lebanese fifteen years and many deaths to get Syria out and to have their country to themselves ag...

Oh the wails from Waukesha... Last night Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s campaign dealt a decisive blow to our party’s attempt to revers...

In the second half of the last bloody century, a new model for rational man emerged... or so we were told.  With the ever-increasing union ...