Found in Translation

A poet learns how to feel and see and think and sound in the language of his adopted home

A Brief History of Secession

Why Calexit might not be as crazy as you think

Boom and Bust

Capturing the boom and bust of fracking in the Bakken

More Than Human

The dawn of a technologically enhanced super-species is upon us

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

A More Mindful Economy

Applying Buddhism to the “dismal science”

Robocops and Robbers

Criminal justice in the age of digital spying and surveillance

Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission by Barry Friedman

On Political Correctness

Power, class, and the new campus religion

One Nation Under God

The contentious role of Christianity in politics

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald; Simon &amp

Spheres of Influence

Telling the story of Native American explorers

Interstates

How My Italian-American husband ate his way into the good graces of my African-American family

Athens: Rocking the Cradle of Democracy

Austerity was supposed to make Greece more efficient, but it seems to be imperiling the country’s future

Darkspur

Spring 2017

Grace

Some Perspective, Please

Why is the age-old technique of representing three dimensions so maligned today?

The Ultimate Pawn Sacrifice

My brother’s life mirrored that of Bobby Fischer, the deeply troubled chess master

Fast Food’s Urban Invasion

How McDonald’s came to the inner city

Six Poems
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Travels in Literary Time

A writer’s excursions beyond mere archives

This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic BiographerRichard Holmes

Skagit Valley, Washington

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