This bit was written in early April of 2020, when we were still all coming to grips with the reality of COVID. A house down the road from us has a campaign sign in the front yard that looks quaint these days.  It reads “Any functioning adult: 2020”.  Indeed, there is a common theme in …

I wrote this as a letter to the Boston Globe after the 2016 New Hampshire primary. I honestly thought T***** didn’t have a chance at that point. But as P.T. Barnum pointed out, nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people. If it walks like a duck… Well, the New Hampshire primary …

Those readers who are old enough should remember the flagship news publication of the USSR, “Pravda”. One can imagine that most Soviet citizens viewed this title with a certain degree of irony. Pravda translates as Truth, and the Communist Party viewed truth as “whatever was required of the moment for people to believe”. Eventually, the …