Evanston RoundTable, August 10, 2017 Some sayings are about as useful as the breath used to say them. (Including this one.) Not all, of course. — Read More
July 27, 2017, Evanston RoundTable It may not be clear what a hogeye is. Some say it’s a flat-bottomed riverboat, others the harpoon man on — Read More
July 27, 2017, Evanston RoundTable There is a big story out there that most people don’t know—a story that is exciting, mysterious, deeply important, and — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, July 13, 2017 A great journalist has to be insatiably curious, passionately dedicated, and a terrific writer. Jeffrey Gettleman has all these talents — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, July 13, 2017 The Victorian writer George Saintsbury said Ecclesiastes was “the saddest and wisest book ever written.” Novelist Thomas Wolfe called it — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, June 29, 2017 With apologies to Marcel Proust, this is not about madeleines or childhood memories. It is about losing things, things that — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, June 15, 2017 Modern science fools us into believing we can understand the world. Not so. Take mathematics, the supposed foundation of science — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, June 1, 2107 Albert Einstein advanced his two most famous theories, on special and general relativity, when he was a young man, and — Read More
Evanston RoundTable, May 18,2017 For Charles Johnson, Evanston was a great place to grow up. The multi-award-winning author and winner of a MacArthur “Genius Grant” — Read More