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  • A Guide to Dystopian Literature

    A Guide to Dystopian Literature0

    Preface For almost as long as I have had the privilege of reading, I have read dystopian literature. I started with Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, but I soon rather quickly devoured Brave New World, Animal Farm, and Nineteen Eighty-Four as well as many of the works of Robert Heinlein, Ursula Le Guin, Arthur

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  • A Government Guide to Keeping Insulin Unaffordable: 3 Easy Steps to Hogtie a Market

    A Government Guide to Keeping Insulin Unaffordable: 3 Easy Steps to Hogtie a Market0

    If you’ve heard anything about insulin lately, it’s probably been palpable outrage over soaring prescription prices or dubious optimism about Eli Lilly’s recent release of its new version that, at half the price, will cost an arm or a leg but not both. Amid this cesspool of indignant commentary, you’re likely to hear one of

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  • A Goodbye Kiss for Family Programming

    A Goodbye Kiss for Family Programming0

    Recently, Joseph Cotto and I discussed on our regular podcast the fate of the Hallmark Channel, which I have viewed periodically while moving with my remote button toward Turner Classic Movies. (On Turner I find old movies, popular during my youth, that have not yet been canceled.) What drew me, however briefly, to the Hallmark

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  • A Good Friday Remembrance from the Heart of the Holocaust

    A Good Friday Remembrance from the Heart of the Holocaust0

    (This story was originally published by Intellectual Takeout on March 29, 2018.) That the most important weekend in Christendom is fraught with busyness is hard to deny. New clothes, chocolate bunnies, egg hunts, and time with family make it easy to slip past the Easter holiday without reflecting on its meaning. If such is your

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  • A Gift to the World: Seeking Not Our Own

    A Gift to the World: Seeking Not Our Own4

    A teacher who was also a poet once explained to me the meaning of a “found poem.” It’s a poem that takes its words and lines from sources outside the poet: newspaper headlines, advertisements, the outdoor message boards found in front of churches, an overheard conversation, even graffiti. Just this morning, I came across a

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  • A Generation of Visigoths: Neil Postman’s Graduation Speech 30 Years Later

    A Generation of Visigoths: Neil Postman’s Graduation Speech 30 Years Later0

    Neil Postman (1931- 2003) was one of the most prolific and influential American intellectuals of the 20th century. A longtime educator at NYU, Postman authored 18 books and more than 200 articles in the nation’s top magazines and newspapers, such as The Atlantic, Time magazine, and Harper’s Magazine. Part of Postman’s immense popularity, I’ve long

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