What happens when one size fits all becomes one size fits none? If you’re trying on a pair of stretch pants, it’s an awkward sartorial moment. When you’re talking about the education of our children, however, it’s a disaster...
POSTED Monday, October 20, 2008

The young folks entering kindergarten these past few weeks are a fascinating group. Born at the dawn of the twenty-first century, they will retire — if they retire at all — in 2073. Many could live into the twenty-second...
POSTED Wednesday, October 1, 2008

On the first day of February 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson had a phone conversation with Senator Eugene McCarthy in which he hoped to tone down McCarthy’s criticism of America’s escalating military involvement in Vietnam. Johnson, clearly frustrated by...
POSTED Wednesday, September 3, 2008

On a recent trip to hunt up something for dinner, I popped into a food store that recently opened in my neighborhood. It's one of those new mega markets, about the size of an airplane hangar, that's designed to...
POSTED Monday, July 28, 2008