In 2020, a company introduced Moxie, a dystopian “social support robot” designed to help kids learn human interaction. As we wrote at the time, this super...
Last December 24, we published a list of the best books to read on Christmas Eve. First on the list, to the surprise of no one,...
To readers under a certain age, Jonathan Franzen’s latest novel, Crossroads will seem like it belongs in a bookstore’s fantasy section. As is typical of Franzen’s...
It’s been about a month since my last book review, and in that review, I mentioned how completely out of character it has been for me...
In October 2020, in the middle of the still ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Pope Francis published an encyclical titled Fratelli Tutti, or “All Brothers.” In it, the...
This marks my third book review this year and I have high hopes it won’t be my last. As my inner (very inner) bookworm emerges from...
Every Sunday, precisely when the clock strikes 4 p.m., I am one of many who fall victim to the Sunday scaries. This past Sunday, my Hail...
The world is lacking in good leadership. The case could be made that this has always been true, that power corrupts, and that to rule over...
“You couldn’t have gotten there. You don’t—surely you don’t—have a sense of guilt about that?” The most gripping part about Clint Hill’s memoir “Five Presidents: My...
Well, this was a treat. Surprisingly, the best baseball writing I have read all year comes in a book written about baseball writing. That new book...
