History Unfolding

 I have been looking at two relatively recent books about higher education, both by successful academics.  The first, The Breakdown of Highe...

 Today's New York Times  features a long account of how Nancy Pelosi shepherded the current version of the Build Back Better bill thro...

 Six years ago, in a post entitled "The Fourth Great Crisis in American National Life," I argued that the crisis in our civilizat...

[The last two paragraphs of this post have been updated.] On Wednesday I posted in a facebook group about the elections in Virginia, where t...

 Last Thursday afternoon, I received my Moderna booster and a flu shot.  I experienced a much more severe reaction than I had for either of ...