History Unfolding

 The other day, preparing for an on-line movie group I belong to, I watched Francois Truffaut's first and probably his greatest movie, T...

 My draft history of the US based upon presidential addresses is now complete through 1981 and I am doing the research for the Reagan years....

 Newspapers, of course, thrive on sensationalism, which in turn relies on scare statistics.  A certain form of innumeracy relies very heavil...

 Addiction occurs, I have been taught, when one is obviously spending more time, energy and money on something than is good for one--so much...

Dozens of commentators have awakened to the disastrous state of American politics and society and the apparent impossibility of unity in a c...