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Is this what Camelot looks like?
“Oh, well, you know, we have thought about this because part of what we want to do is to open up the White House and, and remind people this is, this is the people’s house. There is an incredible...
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The Sea Around Us
Although BP has said that all is going as planned with operation “Top Kill,” nothing will be conclusively known about its success until sometime Sunday. While most articles about this environmental...
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The Oral Tradition
Last week, I traveled up to Massachusetts to attend the memorial service for my uncle, John Juergen Bubbers, who died in May after a long illness. I was reunited with my cousins most of whom I’ve...
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Shackles, Chains, and Canon
In his essay, “In Praise of Dead White Men,” Lindsay Johns argues that efforts to make education more “relevant” to black people can be both patronizing and harmful, and that western literary canon...
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Best of Times, Worst of Times
A couple of weeks ago, my day-job required me to fly to Chicago for a day to attend a meeting. I’d been to Chicago on business a couple of times before, but on those trips I was visiting companies...
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The Art of the Novella: First Love by Ivan Turgenev
In the late 1850’s, three wealthy Russians have supper at the home of one of the men. After the plates are cleared away and the middle-aged gentlemen are enjoying cigars, they trade stories of their...
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The Wealth of a Nation
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are...
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Who speaks for earth?
On this day in 1996 we lost Carl Sagan. Dr. Sagan was one of those rare scientists who could explain difficult scientific concepts to non-scientists in a compelling and understandable way without...
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The Forever Young
On Tuesday, May 18th, we reached a grim milestone in Afghanistan: 1,000 American deaths. The death count started slowly and we didn’t really pay much notice as we were distracted by our larger...
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