The View from This Seat

For some reason, I have never known much about the indomitable woman known as Mother Jones. But noticing that she died 90 years ago, on Nove...

On this day before the American Thanksgiving Day, I am thankful that I am in the last stage of publishing the updated and slightly revised e...

It was 110 years ago today that Count Lev Nikolayevich (Leo) Tolstoy, the famous Russian writer, died at the age of 82, a month younger than...

James K. Polk, the 11 th President, was born on November 2, 1795. As mentioned in my Oct. 30 post , Polk’s 125 th birthday anniversary in ...

With the presidential election in the U.S. apparently settled, our attention can now be given to other, more important personal matters—such...

For many years, I have used the abbreviation TTT for my book Thirty True Things Everyone Needs to Know Now (2018)—and I still encourage peop...

No one in this country is unaware that next Tuesday, November 3, is Election Day. Many U.S. citizens have already voted, but what result can...