It was a call from my friend Michael Gould about three years ago that first alerted me to a book called The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game. It was, he said, a love story about football.
Blind Side tells the true story of Michael Oher, a giant fifteen year old (six foot five, three hundred [...]
With the wedding of our own son still fresh in our minds, Julie and I were touched by the following article that appeared in the “Sunday Styles” section of this week’s New York Times. Written by the father of the groom, it is the story of a young couple serving in Afghanistan who come home [...]
On August 26th, I posted a piece entitled, “No Return.” In it, I commented on the political blunder I believed President Obama made in the Middle East by criticizing Israeli’s policy on West Bank settlements:
“In his passion to establish rapport with the Muslim world, it would seem that The President committed a cardinal political error: [...]
I can’t say for certain that the sound of a champagne flute being smashed underfoot at the end of a wedding ceremony was heard for the first time ever in Franklin County, Missouri last Saturday evening. But it’s possible.
According to Sperling’s survey of the best places to live in the US, the Jewish population of [...]
The author and critic James Bowman recently delivered a talk to the Philadelphia Society in Indianapolis. His address was part of a panel convened to consider “The Pursuit of Wisdom in the Age of the Internet.” Bowman says that although research does not conclude the Internet is making us dumber—quite the opposite, in fact—in his [...]