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Trump’s Appeal

Nov. 25, 2020 Right after the election a good friend of mine, with whom I connect on Zoom every few weeks, asked the question many other people were asking: “What

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What Charlie Taught Me

Listening to Charlie’s stories and reading his columns over the years, I’ve learned a great deal: about the importance of honesty, the values of decency and friendship, and striving to

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In Harm’s Way

Going out the door every day entails some degree of risk, but we do so knowing that to live otherwise, crippled by caution, would be not to live at all.

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Rough Times

Giving way to free-falling despair only leads to the abyss. And we’re not there yet. Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 30, 2020 Add the firestorm over the Supreme Court nomination to the

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Imagine the Joy on V-C Day

Declare victory, announce a day of celebration, a declaration of gratitude for the heroic efforts of our front-line workers and an acknowledgement of the scientific triumph identifying and developing a

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The Summer of Peaches

Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 2, 2020 Amidst the spate of continuing bad news (COVID spiking! Russia hacking! Arctic melting!) and the continuing absence of any civility or sentience in our nation’s

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The Great Reset

Are we in for a renaissance of art and commerce, a Great Reset in the 2020s? Maybe. Let’s hope so. Evanston RoundTable, Aug. 19, 2020 The bad news just keeps

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Obsessing About Obsessions

Evanston RoundTable, Aug. 5, 2020 Almost anything people do can become the object of obsessive devotion and fanatic attention to detail, especially hobbies. Wikipedia lists hundreds, from drink mixing to

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