A few weeks ago I was talking to a friend who is a dean at a private university. He had recently returned from visits to two public universities where he was being considered for a yet higher ...

Thursday marked the 60 th anniversary of JFK's assassination. In retrospect, I believe that horrendous murder was the end of innocence for America. To some degree, it was for me. At barely 16, my ...

As President Biden climbs stiffly up the podium to deliver his State of the Union address, I will be thinking of the lyrics Don Henley first penned about former President Reagan: O’ Beautiful, for ...