The best teacher I ever had was my eighth grade science teacher, and he taught something much more important than science. “I’m going to...

Strong is better than weak. I think most of us already know that. Jordan Peterson, that self-proclaimed arbiter of all things masculine, says that m...

Like half the planet, I read the news most days on my iPad. I love the iPad, but I have noticed a disturbing trend lately. There’s a section i...

I read recently somewhere that Tom Hanks said he wouldn’t play the lead character in the movie ‘Philadelphia’ if it were offered t...

There are no constants. Not so long ago, if you wrote fiction and you wanted to get it published, you had to find an agent. Agents were the doorkeep...

Recently I read ‘Life Is Simple,’ by John Joe McFadden. It is subtitled ‘How Occam’s Razor set science free and shapes the u...

Recent events bring back memories of a guy I used to know. He is long gone now, but when I knew him, he was vibrantly, balefully, malevolently alive...

I love accents. “Oh, you can’t do that,” I was told, not long ago. The person in question had read one of my recent writing projec...

Watched an interview with David Foster Wallace, in which he went to great lengths to impress on the interviewer, I’m Smart! I’m Smarter ...

For me, there is one benefit to all this staying at home: I am getting a lot of work done. I have gone back to writing my first draft longhand, on l...