Oh, What a Week—The American Debate

Just finished reading Country of Lords, a brilliant account of, well, so many things. First of all, shoutout to Kim Phillips-Fein, the history professor at Columbia University, who wrote it. I learned so much from Country of Lords that I went righ…

In the category of people who keep claiming the sun rises in the west despite all evidence to the contrary... Senate Republicans held yet another hearing designed to prove Trump won an election everyone knows he lost. It was a Senate Judiciary Com…

So, there I was last Saturday afternoon, watching the big game--Texas versus Tennessee--when I saw something I'd never seen in all my years of watching sports. Which is a whole lotta years, let me tell you. This Texas defensive lineman named Colin…

Read an article the other day in The New York Times by a reporter named Teddy Rosenbluth, who I presume is a real person. Though in these days of A.I., you never know. It's about Zou and Pak, a couple of scientists at Stanford, who oversaw a team o…

In the category of if you live long enough, you'll see it all... How is it possible that a developer, even a billionaire, would try to build something in Chicago without really running it by the Daleys? Especially if that developer wants to buy th…

From time to time, I find myself compelled to read the stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer. Or re-read, to be exact. As I'd read most of them by the time I was 30. Which was, as you might imagine, a long time ago. Reading all those stories is no smal…