Recent Articles
Making sense of Middle East violence is impossible
Today, I surrender. One of the more annoying things about traveling abroad is foreigners, upon learning that you’re American, assume you are fit to bear responsibility for national policy and action across the globe.
Setting up the new pad in 6 easy steps
With Welcome Week - or Welcome Weekend, as it was - over, 40,000 students at this university are slowly recovering. Hangovers are being drowned in bottled water.
Humans have earned spot at the top of food chain
I weep for the carrot, for its rights are without a champion.Some people don’t like the taste of meat.
Recent advances hold promise of catastrophe
In 1945, J. Robert Oppenheimer quoted the Bhagavad Gita. “I am become Death,” he said, “destroyer of worlds.” He spoke these words in the light of his fading and false sun, the first nuclear explosion on Earth.In retrospect, he was making rather a big deal about nothing.
Good grades dont always make good doctors
I bought a new CD last week. “Pneumonia,” by Whiskeytown. A fine title in the tradition of country music: romantic, tragic and evocative.
