In my article last month The Great Epi-Twitter Meltdown  I touched on the origin of the recent riots and the recent years of intense liberal...

Authentic Sound  is a delightful channel run by Belgian musician Wim Winters. Besides his marvelous playing he discusses musicology, history...

1. Social Media attracts dissatisfied people. 2. Dissatisfied people are often emotionally immature. 3. The traits of emotionally immature p...

1.   Optics Tech Solutions I took a long break from writing since Summer 2018, more or less right as I started my IT business. A s such I ha...

I picked up by chance a children's book one fine art, on the cover of which is Paul Klee's 1928  Cat and  Bird. At once I was taken ...

Doctors were probably the last group of professionals broadly trusted across all stripes of society. Now, there seems to be no group whom ev...

The endless cavalcade of fulminations to the contrary, Donald Trump, his rise to the presidency, and his presidency are not separately or al...

Pianist Lorin Hollander in conversation with Fred Rogers, from Rogers' Old Friends...New Friends  (1978)

I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but I can never decide how best to get rid of a weed.  Should I spray it with some chemica...

Directed by Robert Stevenson (1964) The quintessential Disney classic, Mary Poppins is best remembered for its spectacle of dance, animat...