Styles in role models
. . . "Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire. You're just going to have to make up your own mind one...
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On leaving the hospital
It was just a little sunspot that needed removing. That's what my dermatologist told me. She'd been monitoring it for months, maybe years, and now a biopsy had confirmed her...
What was that he said?
Just what is the country supposed to make of our president's rambling stream-of-consciousness billed as a Major Policy Address at the National Defense University last week? To try to summarize:...
Shakespeare knew all about deniability
It's called deniability. By keeping a president out of the loop, his loyal aides can hope to insulate him against any accusation that he knew of the dirty tricks being...
Suicide of a newspaper
When a city, or a state, loses its daily newspaper, something of its soul is lost with it. It's as if ancient Athens had lost its agora, the forum at...
The growing case for life
The jurisprudence of Her Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, may be only mediocre at best, but her candor deserves the highest praise. Every few...
Scandal of the day
As it goes with these things, every day there is another drip. Which becomes a trickle, then a stream, and soon enough a flood. Maybe even a whole monsoon season....
Easter, the gardener’s version
But Mary stood without at the sepulchre weeping: and as she wept, she stooped down, and looked into the sepulchre, And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at...
The second pope
The wire services routinely refer to Benedict XVI, now the pope emeritus, as the first pontiff to abdicate in 800 years. But few of the news stories go into just...
The best of the Delta
Something is terribly wrong. Used to be, I could safely attend the annual Delta show at the Arkansas Arts Center here in Little Rock with serene confidence that I would...