I sat down to brunch with friends, recently, a long overdue pleasure. As they were friends, they asked how my memoir was progressing. “Oh,” I  replied, the genre isn’t called a memoir anymore.  It’s referred to as “literary nonfiction.” “What’s the difference?” The

Weaponizing anger is a dangerous game.  Bernie Sanders tried it in the last Presidential election and so did Donald Trump.  Trump did it better and he remains a beacon for those who feel disenfranchised.  What both candidates did was tap into the residue loathing still with us from

After the 2008 financial crisis in the United State —  the result of Wall Street bundling bad mortgages together and selling them as investments — writer Michael Lewis wrote, The Big Short, a best seller about what happened.  Primarily, he focused on the few canny invest

The last time Hillary Clinton ran for president, I worked so many long hours for her, she sent me a signed thank you note.  When she lost, I was heartbroken.  This upcoming election, I will support her again, but given a choice, I’d prefer to support Elizabeth Warren.  I admire t

Oh, that a reasonable woman can think so wrongly!  Rebecca Traister pens a opinion piece for The New Republic that criticizes prominent women in the Democratic Party for failing to challenge Hillary Clinton’s potential bid for President of the United State. Elizabeth Warren and Kri

James C. Scott, a Yale political science professor, has just published, Two Cheers for Anarchism. In it, he invites readers to consider the possibility that the greatest gains for human freedom have come not from the orderly exercise of democracy but from the “disorderly unpredictab