Opinion

Please, America, stop doing this to the rest of the world. There are plenty of us who love what you stand for, and when I say “what you stand for,” I don’t mean baseball or Yellowstone or megachurches. I mean freedom. I mean the Constitution, the institutions it created, and the attitudes it fostered. Oppressed […]

As the air finally chills, the Halloween decorations fly out of the garage. There are the usual ghosts and skeletons and the witches maydaying into trees. And there’s another old reliable: green face and yellow eyes, flat head with matted black hair and a bolt sticking out of his neck. This is Frankenstein as imagined […]

The new president was an ex-prosecutor with a middling record and a trail of dubious judgments. He ran a negative campaign that emphasized the flawed personality of the opponent and masked his own poor record. He had entered politics late and risen to the middle through personal connections, then secured his party’s nomination in a […]

“I would uncover my head and kneel on his grave,” Ludwig van Beethoven once remarked about George Frederic Handel. And even as Beethoven lay dying, he venerated Handel as the greatest composer who ever lived. Holding a copy of Handel’s work, the dying Beethoven proclaimed, “There is the truth.”  He was not alone among great […]

Leaving can be as easy as walking out the door, and since 1969, no-fault divorce has made that an easier option for many. The process permits married couples to dissolve their marriages without having to prove wrongdoing, such that “irreconcilable differences,” be they real conflict or a lack of passion, constitute enough reason for one […]

If Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had been born with a different name, he’d probably be peddling miracle mushroom cancer cures on YouTube right now. Instead, our french fry-slinging presidential hopeful Donald Trump has, according to Kennedy, “promised” to give him “control” of all of Washington’s public health agencies, “which, you know, is key to making America […]