The 48th annual Earth Day has come and gone without causing a ripple on America’s collective consciousness. Stormy Daniels, yes. Russians and the election, a little, The environment, who cares? Don’t trust me. A Pew poll conducted about the time … Continue reading
Hayden Keith Monroe
In ”How Democracies Die” a couple of political science professors outline the process that has repeatedly been followed as democratic government give way to autocracies, in the 1930s in Europe and in the postwar era in Peru, Venezuela, Chile and … Continue reading
Last week in the “Washington Post,” Ron Charles took note of a rare feat pulled off by “Less,” the winner of the annual Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It is a comic novel. He’s certainly right that honors are rarely heaped … Continue reading