News Companion

Soon after writing a critique of the NY Times article that demonizes those of us who are concerned about invasive species, I received an em...

One expects quality from the NY Times, but for some reason it periodically weakens its standards to publish an oped or article attacking nat...

A recent piece about Al Gore in the New York Times displayed an unwitting bias that turns reality on its head. The bias stems from a faulty ...

There's a big gap in obituaries for Ben Bradlee, the gutsy, charismatic icon of journalism who passed away October 21st. We hear plent...

In a forum at Princeton University's McCosh Hall entitled "Higher Education and the Intellectual Culture: Is Reform Possible?...

If you weren't able to make it to the Climate March, or only got to see the portion of it you were a part of, click below for a showi...

On Sunday, Sept. 21, beginning at 11:30, people from all across the country will gather at Columbus Circle in New York for what's bei...

The brand of conservatism practiced by Republican leaders is generally thought to be hard-edged. It offers a harsh critique of government, c...

A question inspired by the World Cup: What if the team was all of us, together, and the trophy was a magnificent, life-giving planet orbit...

As mental nourishment for the alumni who gather each spring on the beautiful Princeton University campus for the annual reunion, morning p...

(originally published in Princeton's Town Topics newspaper, after Memorial Day, 2014) Every time Memorial Day comes around (or July 4t...

Even if we were able to end all acts of terror, we’d still have the mimics of terrorism to contend with. As can be seen in ships lost at sea...

My daughter has civics this year in 8th grade, so it's time to explain to her what a conservative is. This is not easy, because conserva...

I went to hear the author Jennifer Senior talk at our local middle school about her book, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parentho...

It's often said, usually after another poll comes out, that this is the first time in America that people believe the next generation wi...

So, yesterday I saw there would be a talk at the university entitled “The Future of the Brain”. Being a brain, I was interested. Though most...

The International Space Station, orbiting above earth, has a problem. One of its cooling systems has failed. The astronauts responded in a r...

With the passing of a leader who persevered beyond all measure, and finally triumphed to father a nation, a cluster of wishes: - that a le...

As the temperature dipped below 20 degrees F on a Thursday evening, the choice looked to be between fulfilling my responsibilities as design...

Written for Memorial Day, 2013 In a time when most people feel disconnected from the nation's wars and those who fight them, there...

Back when I was taking care of indoor plants at the Michigan Union, on whose steps John F. Kennedy announced his proposal for a Peace Corps,...

As of yesterday, an overweening lust to filibust has finally been busted in the Senate, restoring some trust that majority rule can at last...