Jon Margolis

Frederic Chopin`s heart, said the tour guide, is buried in a church just a few blocks south of the walls of the Old City, though what`s left of the rest...

Hungarians don`t mind that nobody speaks their language. Well, they don`t seem to mind. Who knows what Magyar bile boils silently within? Perhaps they see how unreasonable it would be...

But first, a disclaimer. The following, in praise of a private, profit-making enterprise, was unsolicited by said enterprise and will result in no benefit, direct or indirect, from said enterprise....

Like scientists, poets are often wrong. ''Ef I`d had my way I hed ruther we should go to work and part,'' wrote James Russell Lowell, accepting the secession of the...

Picture a country in which tuberculosis is spreading in the big city and ever-larger numbers of children go hungry. The people know about the hunger, and care about it, but...

Has it come to this, then? Have we sunk so low that our politicians cannot perform even minimally competent demagoguery? O tempora, as a great demagogue once said, O mores....

Society exists to shield people from risk and danger-from storms, floods, fires and, especially, each other. Primitive societies protect only against physical dangers. The more advanced try to guard against...

Surrender at the outset any expectation that public life in America will be anything other than show business. Is it too much to hope that it could at least rise...

Here are two questions: First, would you like to know my opinion? Second, why? On the basis of it being my opinion, my opinion isn`t worth much. Nor is yours...

The train conductor was not pleased by the presidential candidates. ''I`m like a lot of people,'' he said. ''And to tell the truth I`m not really impressed by either one...