I’m friends with a couple about to set off for Paris for their first visit. How I envy them.  My upcoming memoir looks back fondly to my first days in Paris.  If there is magic in the world, it exists there.   Though the man and wife who are about to fly there  are retired, I’

The trouble with money is us. Whether there’s too much or too little money spells trouble. In the case of too much, it creates the illusion of entitlement, as described in the ongoing property battles between the rich and famous in the Hamptons (“Boundary Issues, by Bob Morris, To

Ralph Douthat of The New York Times raises a question worth considering.  Can we defend free speech without weakening it by carving out exceptions? (“Je Suis Charlie! Testing the limits of free speech, The Week, January 21,2015 pg. 16.)  Some prominent universities that purport t