Dear All, In case you missed it last week, I am pretty strongly opposed to cultural and/or scientific movements to reduce human beings to some lesser common denominator.

Dear All, Black lives matter! Of course! But ‘how much’? And why is the reminder so urgent? I am absolutely certain that somewhere there is an economist who can tell you down to the last farthing just how much it costs to birth, feed, clothe, house, educate a kid of color in Manchester, New York, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, East Overshoe.

Dear All, Latin is a wonderful language; it can express a universe of truth or sentiment in fewer words than any other language. Today’s lesson, then, focuses on a two-word expression: Vae victis! Woe to the vanquished!

Dear All, It is now more than a decade since I read a really interesting essay by a really famous Protestant theologian (whose name I will recall in about 45 minutes) about the uniqueness of the USofA and of American religion in general.