Category: Features

Depending on what you’ll accept as a “country,” there are something like 225 of them in the world. I’ve visited about 175 – some many …

My first trip to Bulgaria was in January of 1967 when, with two other penniless hippies, I alighted from the train in Sofia at about …

When the gendarmes in Davis, California arrested a local citizen for breaking a noise ordinance by snoring too loudly, we chuckled. When the city council …

Every day brings reminders of the importance of religion. The war on terrorism pits the United States against an adversary that grounds its doctrines – …

A recent visit to the “Politics & Government” section in a Borders bookstore put me before a deluge of books whose authors all evinced a …

When is a lower-case e like a clitoris? Unlike the Mad Hatter’s “How is a raven like a writing desk?” chestnut, there is actually an …

On Nov. 12th, Maureen Dowd was interviewed by Larry King on CNN. Asked about Judith Miller of the Times, and her role in the lead-up …

Every year I train ten or fifteen teaching assistants, and I enjoy doing it. One of the things I especially enjoy is taking them through …

Republicans probably realize by now that complaining so long and loud about Bill Clinton’s fibbing under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky opened a …

The period from the fall of the· Western Roman Empire, until approximately the middle of the 11th century, is often known as the Dark Ages. …