Oklahoma, “where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain,” is among the reddest of red states. It gave Donald Trump the third biggest percentage... Read More

“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever.” This was white supremacist Alabama Governor George Wallace’s epic battle cry in his infamous 1963 inaugural speech... Read More

LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE, I spent election night filled with dread and anxiety. The country had just elected a thin-skinned, inexperienced, intellectually uncurious... Read More

We need to resist. I don’t know what exactly this resistance will look like. I’m finishing this column just three weeks after the 2016... Read More

Our last combat mission was my worst experience of the war, but it taught me the most. We landed on the X, which basically... Read More

ONE OF THE MOST SAVAGE reviews ever written was published in 1818 in response to a collection of verse by a somewhat unknown poet.... Read More

“We are born once. We cannot be born a second time, and throughout eternity we shall of necessity no longer exist. You have no... Read More

  Leonardo Da Vinci, took his place across the tiny aisle from me, and buckled the belt of his seat. I was certain it... Read More

[caption id="attachment_18103" align="alignright" width="250"] Hasui Japanese Woodblock Print Shimoda 1937[/caption] The moon’s a fat convict of the stick-stalk trees then escapes, a desperado loose... Read More

ON ELECTION EVE I finally got really excited about the first Democratic female president. Two days before that the adult choir at the UU... Read More