Category: Reflections

Only days after the attack on the World Trade Center, I was solicited to join a terrorist group. I do not exaggerate – I was …

John Slade, M.D., died on Jan. 29 at a family home on Lake Burton in Rabun County, Ga., from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was …

A while back, the Kenyon Review warned prospective contributors that it “does not read unsolicited manuscripts during the months of April, May, June, July, August, …

I grew up in a big city where political campaigns mean glitzy TV ads and junk-mail fundraisers, so I was a bit surprised to find …

John McGinnis writes in a letter to the editor (February) that “the word ‘hysteria’ derives from the ancient Greek word for womb, and that the …

You feel a sense of relief when you leave behind a country caught in that never-ending cycle of violence, with all its consequences: The threat …

I’ve written pages before that the current inferno in Palestine began when Ariel Sharon marched with too many troops into the Old City of Jerusalem, …

The January 2002 issue of Maxim pointed out the notably large number of psychopaths who found Catcher in the Rye to be a very inspiring …

One should probably not be shocked, of course, but it is still worth noting that the Knight-Ridder newspapers have documented the fact that the Justice …

Join me, my friends, in a moment of silence to honor the memory of former U.S. Sen. Harrison A. Williams (D-N.J.), who departed this vale …