Back in 1989, while living and teaching in Paris I did a good deal of café reading. One selection that stuck with me was a biography of renowned war…
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Two items from my radio this morning: 1. Mr. Ebbers, formerly CEO of WorldCom failed to convince a jury that he didn’t know the books were being cooked in…
Ask for the name of a “Renaissance man” and you will likely get the response Da Vinci, or perhaps Michelangelo, or even Lorenzo de Medici or Erasmus. Probably because…
Americans Abroad No. 6 Heliopolis, Egypt, 1989. Mahmoud looked worried. That wasn’t a good sign; after all he was my Egyptian tour manager, the guy who was supposed…
“Supporting the Troops” has become axiomatic in the discourse on the war in Iraq. This mantra is our prime Viet Nam legacy. No matter how you feel…
One of the many curious practices that struck me during the couple of years I spent in Hong Kong was that there were two different medical systems operating side by…
Almost the sure sign that our own democracy is in peril is the political drum beat that we must bring democracy to the rest of the world. This political evangelism is…
Why did I do it!? After many abstemious years and I light-up like country singer who just lost his truck and his girl. Why!? I knew if…
On an almost fully-booked international from Europe a few years ago I was having my usual trouble trying to sleep in my aisle coach seat on a 747. Added…
Arthur Miller died the day before Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. Is coincidence alone any reason for reflection on the lives of these two men? There’s the physical resemblance: both…