Evanston RoundTable, Dec. 14, 2017 Welcome, everyone, thanks for coming. So glad you all could be here. Wish I could too! (Awkward pause.) It’s OK to laugh, I’m just kidding!

Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 30, 2017 There were two boys who were schoolmates and best friends. But they were very different. Bobby seemed to have it all: smart, good-looking, and athletic,

Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 16, 2017 Every day seems to bring more accusations of and discussion about sexual harassment, as women everywhere are emboldened to speak out and men begin to

Evanston RoundTable, Nov. 2, 2017 It seems like every other Evanston conversation begins with a complaint and ends with a question. The complaint is about the state of the world,

Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 19, 2017 From Kafka to the Existentialists, alienation and isolation have been central tenets of modern life. As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, everyone experiences “the same

Evanston RoundTable, Oct. 5, 2017 There is a big upside to the downside of life’s brevity: it focuses our attention on getting things done. Many years ago I volunteered at

Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 21, 2017 Northwestern University’s Block Museum is readying a major exhibit on the English poet and artist William Blake, who died in obscurity in 1827 at the

Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 21, 2017 In a world brought low by hateful politics, toxic weather, and a seemingly endless supply of misery and divisiveness, it is well to remember the

Evanston RoundTable, Sept. 7, 2017 I’m the sort of fellow who, enjoying a bowl of ice cream, begins to regret the last few licks; who sees the beautiful fall season