Empathy, to Charlie Kirk, meant trying to feel someone else’s pain or sorrow as if it were your own. Charlie said, “I think empathy is a made-…
As I prepare to leave Idaho, and particularly Pocatello, I have been borderline maudlin. It is time to go, and new adventures are calling, but…
Before leaving for Patagonia last December, I was in limbo regarding whether to continue my part-time legal consulting and mediation practice.…
Secretary of Education Linda E. McMahon has issued another Trump administration attack on higher education. Her August 3, 2026 document, A Nat…
How often do you discover that something you believed was true is simply not the case? Take cork, for instance. For years, I harbored the beli…
Apparently, “The Art of the Deal” (when it comes to Trump) is that you blow up a solid treaty with Iran because it was brokered when Obama was…
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the USA, do we believe that the Declaration of Independence promise, “that all men are created equal w…
If you are a bit stuffy, you might consider me inappropriate for commingling a memorial with other people, but Ralph will forgive me because h…
Pluribus Unum (Latin for “out of many, one”) and "Liberty" are two of the oldest and most significant inscriptions on American money. They rep…
I have returned to the United States grudgingly after having been gone six months. During that time, I spent a month in the Patagonia region, …
