The View from This Seat

There was considerable interest in and comments/questions about my March 8 blog post titled “Doubt is Better than Certainty.” This post is a...

Perhaps you don’t know (or remember) anything about the Butler Act, a new Tennessee law signed in 1925, but you are likely aware of the well...

Last Sunday, the 97 th Academy Awards presentations were made at Dolby Theater in Hollywood. I didn’t watch the award ceremony, but early M...

When I was still a teenager, I became a pacifist, and I have remained so for nearly 70 years now. It was perhaps only a little later, and fo...

You know the word musty (having a stale, moldy, or damp smell) and also perhaps the term musky (having an odor of or resembling musk). But ...

  Several months ago, I intended to post a blog article today titled “Happy 100 th Birthday, Dr. Cobb!” He was alive and well at that time,...

A week has now passed since the 47 th president’s first full day in office, and it is hard to express adequately how calamitous these days ...