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It’s too soon to know how as Americans or humans we are going to get through this pandemic when we are not at the end of the beginning; when one after another shops and businesses shutter, state...
DATE: March 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In 1757, Benjamin Franklin – newspaperman, inventor, Freemason and more – was sent to England by the Pennsylvania Assembly to lobby for the colony. He was sent to protest the machinations of the...
DATE: March 19, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
One can measure the influence of Edmund Burke, the 18th century Irish statesman and philosopher, by his having been claimed as an original or classical liberal as well as the archetypal...
DATE: March 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Dear Elizabeth Warren: When we heard the news last Thursday morning, even though we knew this was coming, we felt a little gutted, not for your presidential candidacy falling so short but because...
DATE: March 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
One of the things people often get wrong about Robert Frost is assuming he was a New Englander. He was a Californian, which is useful to keep in mind when you suppose what you are seeing in his...
DATE: March 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Our politics and our pandemic have had some unfortunate overlap, not least of which is Democrats and Republicans trading charges of politicizing all responses to the coronavirus – which perhaps...
DATE: March 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Looking at Super Tuesday in the hard light of Wednesday morning, our first thought was Democrats might want to consider stocking up on canned goods for the long slog until June or November, or even...
DATE: March 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
We would be remiss, especially now, when the Democratic Party is poised to go farther left than it has been before, if we did not observe the 172nd birthday of the “Communist Manifesto,” published...
DATE: March 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
We like playing sports, much better than we like watching most professional athletes, but we are always willing to make exceptions. This conforms with the tastes of a border collie of our...
DATE: Feb. 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In 1959, a mix-up resulted in the first state visit to the U.S. by a Russian or Soviet leader, and the first time one had set foot in the Western Hemisphere, when Nikita Khrushchev was accidentally...
DATE: Feb. 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The word “propaganda” is not as modern as it sounds. It first pops up as Church Latin in 1622, naming a mission to spread the faith in non-Catholic countries. That is consistent with its modern...
DATE: Feb. 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The first time we bumped into the term “rewilding,” our thoughts were, “Hubris?” and then “Jurassic Park!” The term, which seems to date to the 1990s, is actually more modest than that. It refers...
DATE: Feb. 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials
