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  • A Nation’s True Test Comes After the Crisis

    A Nation’s True Test Comes After the Crisis0

    Perhaps it’s natural and understandable for most people to think that things like “leadership” and “character” are forged and evidenced in response to crisis. It’s quite apparent in the present moment that judgments about public figures are being shaped by how they’re handling the virus pandemic. Around the world, people are generally, if grudgingly, embracing

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  • Beyond Raising Chickens: Survival Techniques You Should Try

    Beyond Raising Chickens: Survival Techniques You Should Try0

    Counting one’s chickens before they’re hatched is taking on new meaning in the age of the coronavirus. Baby chicks are the new toilet paper, The New York Times explained over the weekend. Chicken-suppliers have been cleared out as Americans adjust to quarantine and their minds switch to survivalist mode. I can’t say that I blame

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  • Zoom’s Acceleration Isn’t Slowed by Red Tape

    Zoom’s Acceleration Isn’t Slowed by Red Tape0

    Founder and current CEO emeritus of Visa, Inc., Dee Hock once said, “From no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things.” Yet in the fight against COVID-19, many “ordinary people” have been blocked from doing “extraordinary things.” Due to government regulations, too few people have been

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  • Five Things Americans Should Know About South Korea’s Handling of Coronavirus

    Five Things Americans Should Know About South Korea’s Handling of Coronavirus0

    This week in South Korea, a 97-year-old woman – well into the age group most susceptible to the coronavirus – fully recovered from COVID-19. This was one more victory for South Korea, a U.S. ally that is viewed as a success story to the world in combating the coronavirus pandemic. The small country of South

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  • Plague Humor Is Good for You

    Plague Humor Is Good for You0

    My older sister took great pleasure in telling a younger-me the dark history behind the nursery rhyme, “Ring-around-the-Rosies.” She told me that the cheerful tune was written about the Black Death: the “pocket full of posies,” refers to small bouquets of sweet-smelling herbs the healthy would carry close to their noses in order to protect

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  • Teaching Humane Literature in High Schools0

    In many American high schools, the teaching of literature is in the sere and yellow leaf. One reason for this decay is the unsatisfactory quality of many programs of reading; another is the limited knowledge of humane letters possessed by some well-intentioned teachers, uncertain of what books they ought to select for their students to

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