Can We Play Fair in 2021?
Seeking referees for the Internet and media Long, long ago, in the 1990s, we spoke of the Information Highway Many of us weren’t sure what that meant exactly, but it was going to make life bigger, better, and ever so…
Seeking referees for the Internet and media Long, long ago, in the 1990s, we spoke of the Information Highway Many of us weren’t sure what that meant exactly, but it was going to make life bigger, better, and ever so…
There’s been some confusion. Can we talk? Wow, it’s noisy out there There’s so much shouting and posturing as the days tick by toward November 3 that we can hardly hear ourselves think, am I right? New day, new spectacle, from…
The war on vote-by-mail I tried, I really tried, to aim away from politics this week. But with the step-up in the attacks on the U.S. Postal Service, writing about anything else just felt like setting a nice table while…
Tanka a lot, August I am no poet, and I know it But I admire poetry a whole lot (though if I didn’t, I’d never admit it — what kind of person doesn’t like poetry?). Although I write all the time, it’s very…
We won’t get through this if we lose all our joy I’m not trying to be funny here Seriously. What I’m after is a sober-sided defense of levity. After taking an afternoon off yesterday from all the awfulness that is America these…