The Philosopher's Stone

In his greatest work, The Interpretation of Dreams , Sigmund Freud introduces an extremely useful concept, “overdetermination,” that pre...

In 1979, my Harvard classmate Ted Kennedy [Class of ’54, I never met him] announced his candidacy for the Democratic Party nomination fo...

In the classic Billy Wilder romantic comedy, Sabrina Fairchild, the chauffeur’s daughter, tells business hotshot Linus Larrabee that the...

It is a rainy Saturday afternoon in Paris, Serena Williams’ third round match at the French Open has been suspended, the two cuisses de ca...

With the aid of the wheelchair, Susie and I paid a visit to the Jardin du Luxumbourg .  There is a lovely artificial lake in the middle of t...

I think I have written here on my bout with something called polymyalgia rheumatic, or PMR.  I was in very bad pain for two months until my ...

Jeffrey Sachs has a must-read op ed in today's Washington Post .  I pay to get access to the Post but if you do not, here it is [I imag...