It’s more true than not that veterans trend right when it comes time to vote, but it’s presumptive to think there are no liberals among warriors. When one has seen what war brings, you do... Read More

I’d like to sit down next to the old man on the bench in the shopping mall— the one judging the crowd as he waits for his wife to return with an armload of packages.... Read More

Science Versus Religion To understand everything, all you need is 10 numbers and 26 letters which is accurate to the exact extent that every lie has access to that same truth.   Parable of Food... Read More

So much you can learn from such a small space. Imagine Emily. Kant, too. it leads one to believe that to know one life truly is to know all lives really, and that to know... Read More

I watch her in that crosswalk every day, Her stride, the way she swings her hair. Her strong eyes track up this way And challenge. She surprises me in class. Now, I contemplate, I do,... Read More

On the Death of a Soldier Make no mistake: he is dead. He does not sleep. There is no whisper in his brain. There is nothing in his chemistry that can say, “I am cold.”... Read More