Everyone admitted that his writing was brilliant, innovative, insightful of the human condition, and that he probably deserved the accolade of “best writer of the 20th century”, but as a human being he was flawed to the point where it interfered with the readers’ enjoyment of his work. In one...

Now that we’re on the cusp of getting back to normal from our year of Covid jail, we can look back and make sense of our unprecedented experiences. Strangely, the pandemic provided incentives for makeovers and self-improvement. For one thing gyms were closed, facials, manicures, pedicures and massages weren’t possible....

“There are those who say that every generation needs a new translation: why a work itself doesn’t age whereas a translation does, is in some way mysterious. But translations seem more closely tied to their time, and the style of their time, and can easily come to sound dated…When you...

Educators know that college may not be for everyone. There are all kinds of aptitudes, skills, talents, and abilities—and above all, motivations and interests. Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are all college dropouts. Sadly though, it’s politically incorrect to acknowledge that people are different and that there are...

Moral baseness reached even greater depths when those like McConnell and Haley, who metaphorically had crawled in the mud almost to the finish line, did a complete turnaround when it became politically expedient to abandon the “leader” they had formerly admired, praised and enabled. It is especially McConnell though, who...

“We are actors on the stage of our own theater, and we script a role for ourselves through ‘impression management’”. Speaking from personal experience, I sorely miss my wardrobe. As I prepared for work each day to teach at my college, I could choose what part of my personality I...

The armed criminal supporters--the “pied pipers of Trumpism"-- that stormed the Capitol in what can only be considered an attempted coup d’état, have not only changed the way that the long-established Inauguration ceremony can take place today, they have undermined the security of America and democracy tomorrow and all the...

The impeachment and subsequent trial are not for us who lived through his presidency; they are to set the record straight for our grandchildren and theirs, on the viciousness of the Trump presidency, and must be a cautionary tale about what happens when an incorrigible president who was already impeached...

The shocking sights that the world was subjected to on January 6, 2021, as Trump loyalists stormed the Capitol in Washington D.C. should not have taken any careful observer of the Trump presidency by surprise. It was the day some of us had been dreading and fearing for a long...