History Unfolding

   The crisis in higher education is much in the news.  I have been too busy to write much myself for awhile, but anyone interested in this ...

 Regarding the crisis in the Persian Gulf, nothing has happened in the last eleven days to alter the opinions that I expressed eleven days a...

 Even relatively apolitical Americans, I think, inevitably think of the president of the United States as a father.  In a sense this is true...

 I hesitate to write about the ongoing war.  It is very easy to speculate about how it will end in disaster, and very hard to know at this p...

 My uncle Henry Kaiser was born in 1911 and died in the late 1980s after a long career as a labor attorney.  He was the third of his 9 sibli...