If we knew why, and how, a school classroom, full of students, all from the same town, all exposed to the same experiences, the same information, the same culture and society, can turn out, fifty years on, to be Right and Left, Believer and Atheist, nice and not so nice, we could understand why the […]
The old schoolyard Read More »
Once we talked to friends of their children, their houses, their careers, their plans and dreams; of the books they were writing, films they had seen, art they had created, gardens they had grown. Now we talk to friends of their illnesses, their operations, their diseases, their pills and potions and prognoses, of who has
Cabbages and kings Read More »
As you move around the world, in youth and middle age, new friends come and keep coming. When you age and stop moving, old friends go.
Donald Trump is the end result of confusing quantity of free speech with quality of free speech
In a crowded theatre Read More »
Mad solutions to invented problems to please an imaginary being and avoid non-existent punishments.
There were racist Presidents before Trump, and there will be racist Presidents after Trump, but I think we can safely say there has never been and never will be a President as racist as Trump.
Quacks like a duck Read More »
The way of Empires is to wreck countries all around them and then refuse to accept the consequences.
Crying like a refugee Read More »
Is every country now faced with the prospect of its own version of the Spanish Civil War?
I can write. I can even write well. But can I write well enough?
That is the question Read More »
