The birth and longevity of a great University, “based,” as the founder of the University of Virginia said, “on the illimitable freedom of the human mind,” would be a cause for celebration under any circumstances. The celebration is...
For many people today the CIA is a three-letter symbol for practices reviled with four-letter words. In deed, in some circles, writing about the Central Intelligence Agency has become an exercise in political pornography: the subject...
I didn’t know I would see the cat when I went out for the milk. I didn’t know that the milk box had frozen during the night and there were broken icicles scattered around it like splintered glass.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I didn’t have a happy childhood. It was miserable. I had a father who was never home, a mother who read True Detective magazines, and an older sister who was a born leader.
A remarkable development has recently occurred within the changing power conflicts and coalition strategies of the Congressional political system. The Congress has chosen after two decades of deferring to the military’s authority to revive...
It must be the puritan in me that responds to the challenge to purify the language of the tribe. Presumably even the lowliest poet can assist in this job, acting like a small auxiliary filter in the water supply system.
