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  • Remembering 9/11

    Remembering 9/110

    How much do you remember about 9/11? Almost certainly – unless you are quite young – you know the basics: Islamic terrorists hijacked planes and flew them into targets in New York City and Washington, D.C. But do you remember how many American victims were murdered that day? In Mitchell Zuckoff’s book published last year, Fall and Rise: The

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  • Remember, Remember, the Dead in November

    Remember, Remember, the Dead in November0

    As November sucks the color from the landscape and wind stirs the crackling leaves of the graveyards into little flurries, I stand under swaying pine branches, surrounded by headstones, and offer a few prayers. The cemetery is wrapped in a sacred stillness and silence, the kind of silence that surrounds mysteries too deep for words.

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  • Remember To Enjoy the Freedom you Defend

    Remember To Enjoy the Freedom you Defend0

    “X is great and all, but it’s pretty hard to enjoy X when the government has its hands in your pocket.” “Sure, Y is fun, but it’s pretty hard to be happy about things like Y when Hillary is getting ready to take away our guns.” “I’m a big fan of Z too…and believe me,

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  • Remember This Line?

    Remember This Line?0

    • August 28, 2015

    “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” Spoken by Kevin Spacey’s character Verbal Kint, it’s probably the most oft-quoted line from the 1995 movie The Usual Suspects. Some people mistakenly attribute it to C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters, which involves a dialogue between two demons who are trying to bring about the

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  • Remember the Black Death and Be Thankful This Isn’t It

    Remember the Black Death and Be Thankful This Isn’t It0

    As an example of biomedical catastrophe, the Black Death of the 14th century stands unmatched. The coronavirus, whatever global havoc it might wreak, is not even remotely in its league. During a four-year period between 1347 and 1351, one quarter to one half of Europe’s population died of the plague, with great variations by region.

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  • Religion or Party

    Religion or Party0

    • October 16, 2018

    American politics suffers a dearth of prudent, clear-eyed thinking. Theoretically, in a representative democracy each of us should examine the political world and support the person and the party that promises to fight for the policies that best match our needs. Few of us probably conform to this ideal, however, and instead our party identities

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