The Philosopher's Stone

In 1959, Norman Mailer published a collection of short pieces to which he gave the deliciously ironic title Advertisements for Myself . This...

Markos Moulitsas , founder and proprietor of THE DAILY KOS website, recently commissioned a poll of 2000+ self-identified Republicans in an...

I am home after a quick, very busy, exhausting, but quite rewarding visit to Marist College in Poughkeepsie , NY. I gave two talks, both o...

Tomorrow well before the crack of dawn, I shall head to Marist College in Poughkeepsie to give two talks. The second one, "What Good...

There are times when I wonder, seriously, whether this country is ready for self-rule. The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press...

Two men with whom my life intersected have passed away in the last forty-eight hours. The first, Howard Zinn , is, I am sure, known to mos...

It seems I cannot sustain a serious funk for more than a few days. I really am a Tigger . I just spent a few moments while eating my lunch...