The text of Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny – 20 Lessons from the 20th Century is brief, blunt, essential reading right now. The advice of Snyder, a historian and a specialist in totalitarianism, is as simple …[READ MORE]

I keep coming back to Sandra Bland.  I’m as distraught and depressed as most everyone else, but I’m taking some very cold comfort from the fact that it has always been like this.  As author …[READ MORE]

Breaking up with a a media outlet that you have considered essential for years is a challenge. Sheer habit alone will keep you there, but sometime change is so needed, nothing can prevent it.   I …[READ MORE]