The View from This Seat

The title of this blog article includes (2) because in August 2017 I posted an article using the  same two words ( see here ). I en...

Over the last four months, I have posted four foundational articles related to my book The Limits of Liberalism (2010), which I am updating...

Last month I wrote ( here ) about my father-in-law, who was born 110 years ago in May. This post is about Max Garrott, an esteemed friend a...

June 19 is a special day that, unfortunately, is overlooked and/or disregarded widely by the dominant culture in the U.S. But Juneteenth, ce...

In my May 25 blog post , I referred to Scylla and Charybdis, two sea monsters found in ancient Greek mythology. In this article, I am again...

Who would you put on a list of your most admired living people in the U.S.? I haven’t given much thought to making such a list, but if I di...

Christian Leopold (C.L.) Neiger, my only great-grandparent not born in the U.S., was born in Canton Bern, Switzerland, 180 years ago today...