Was Mother Teresa a Fraud?
Read MoreThis is my article which was published in The Truth Seeker magazine and online in August 2016.
Is Great Sportswriting Becoming a Thing of the Past?
Read MoreI suspect most of us are hard-wired to remember our most impressionable youthful experiences. That’s why there’s such big market for nostalgia. The histories of the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers have been written about ad nauseam. But they still sell because so many people grew up supporting those teams and there remains an insatiable appetite for alternative perceptions of our most fond memories.
Dick Cheney’s Book: Why Isn’t This Lying, Thieving Bastard in Jail?
Read MoreDick Cheney got everything wrong.
“America would be hard-pressed to find a more despicable political autocrat than Dick Cheney, who not only refuses to disappear but just won’t shut up.”
Note: Obviously, I wrote this column before Donald Trump arrived on the political scene.
232 Degrees Celsius: What Books Would You Burn? (If Any)
You won’t believe what they’re burning.
What books should be burned? Are there any?
If so, name them.
Are some books so gravely perilous — both to the reader and to society — that burning them could be construed as a righteous act?
Read MoreWe are never prepared for what we expect (Movie Review: “Wild”)
Read MoreWe are never prepared for what we expect. So wrote novelist James A. Michener. That thought sums up the life-transforming excursion in pursuit of self-awareness, some might even say an identity, ventured by writer Cheryl Strayed back in 1995, when she embarked upon a grueling three-month, 1,100-mile journey entirely by foot, along the Pacific Crest Trail.
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