“You say you want a revolution,” John Lennon sang in 1970. Ten years later, he was gunned down by a man who should never have owned a firearm. With 434 million guns in America, the debate over whether the conditions exist for a second civil war strikes fear. Violent arms…

“Putin is Hitler.” That simple equation, by Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger, whose rants I often discount, struck a nerve. I had already found myself uncomfortably “getting” Sen. Lindsey Graham intemperately calling to “take out” Russian President Vladimir Putin. …

We are a nation whose heart and wallet are often at odds. While the extraordinary valor and terrible suffering of the people of Ukraine tug hard at the better angels of our nature, the rapidly escalating prices at the pump hit us where it hurts in the pocketbook. No matter…

Sitting atop my high horse as 2022 draws to a close, I’m amazed at how far we’ve come. Back in early March, nobody would have predicted the perfect storm that revolutionized our health care system. …

We are asleep at the wheel — a very dangerous place to be. It haunts my dreams. Recently, I awakened from arguing with a university professor over his failure to condemn violence in Palestine. I scratched my head over this imagined debate and realized it doesn’t mean as much anymore…

In this, the month of Aquarius, I feel that I am swimming upstream to wonder where we have reached in our national cultural trough when the only touchstones we share are political loves and hates and vaccine and masking belief and unbelief. We agree to disagree, but it is about…

“Scrambled eggs.” …

One year ago, a leader of the country, in an appalling but unsurprising dereliction of duty, sat back and scarfed down cheeseburgers as an unruly mob of paranoiac self-professed patriots stormed the Capitol and wreaked mayhem. One lost her life in her zeal to enter. The leader’s party aped the…

What is Christmas in 2021? Dickens was the Disney of his day, and he colored it in 1843 with familial nostalgia, an allegory of greed versus giving, and the weight we each must bear for the chains we forge in life. It was both secular tale and Christian parable. …