The distinguished writer was stabbed in public yesterday, in Chautauqua, N.Y., as he prepared to speak to an audience on the subject of America as a place for freedom of expression. He had just taken his seat when the assailant went up on stage and started stabbing him. Early reports speak…

We keep trying to reestablish the Iran Nuclear deal and yet, Iran is now sending drones to Russia to help them fight Ukrainians. How does that work? From what I understand, a reactivated nuclear deal has been deemed desirable because it would give Israel more time to prepare for an eventual…

You keep turning right politically. You keep mishandling the immigration issue. Granted, you’re right there, at the front of the problem. Immigrants from Africa keep coming to your shores, but there are ways to handle the problem. Immigration from less developed areas is the leading problem we face today. Technology has made the…

This is the time. I don’t think Putin would survive a defeat in Ukraine. Russia is a demoralized nation for when they compare themselves with the rest of the world they have to wonder, ‘how come we’re not among the leading countries?’ ‘How come people don’t want to come visit us?’ ‘Why…

The Republican party has a steep uphill battle for the 2024 presidential elections. The footprint that Trump has left will be hard to erase. That’s how toxic it has been. The fact that Trump is still in the running for the nomination is baffling, but that’s clear evidence of how confused the party…

It starts with the willingness to dissent. To be able to disagree, to oppose, to not go along with something you do not favor. It is a quality to be nurtured. It needs to be exercised because otherwise it shrinks and atrophies. And to allow that is to allow for our…

This is the time. The time to break the chains that Putin has wrapped around your neck. You are not the nation you could be. You have the capabilities to stand as one of the first nations in the world, but you are not because to do so you need freedom…

Getting to know our emotional world well is a life long task. And it takes patience. But the benefits are vast. We have made and are making enormous progress in all branches of science and its applied disciplines and yet, by comparison, we are way behind in the understanding and processing…

To have a center as a person, is to be doing something you enjoy, and that something makes you feel stronger and wiser. Having a center lets you manage your envy, accept that others have more than you do, if they do, and you don’t get rattled by it. You…