Memorial Day 2016
Memorial Day: our most troubled national holiday
Memorial Day has become our most conflicted holiday. I’m bothered by it, and I know I am not the only one.
A Memorial Day tribute
Today is the day we honor the men and women who died in our nation’s wars. I’d like to honor three very different World War II vets today by telling you my […]
Sometimes I weep for my journalist friends: or Paris Hilton stoops to conquer
This just in – on this Memorial Day weekend, when my colleagues at Scholars and Rogues are writing thoughtful analyses and contemplations of matters like the carnage in Iraq, immigration reform and […]
Memorial Day musings: Americans, politicians, and the great species divide
Virek must have seen it too; he screamed, and Baron Samedi, Lord of Graveyards, the loa whose kingdom was death, leaned in across Barcelona like a cold dark rain. – William Gibson, […]
