Lacunae Musing

North Korea is an enigma (to me at least).   Only a few months ago the young North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was saber rattling nuclear...

Albert Schmidt, that is, but he prefers to be called "Schmidtie" and Louis Begley's trilogy captures the essence of a ...

Here is a satiric fable, an extended parable for our times, making hilarity of the foibles of human nature, a change of pace from my usual r...

The Republican debate last night was laughable, sometimes downright embarrassing. Sound bites galore: "Everything is Obama's fault,...