The Public "I"

I believe the world came to an end on April 5, 1761. And if you haven’t heard about it, well your ancestors were just not paying attention....

I say this with all compassion and sympathy to our outgoing President: Good riddance. George Bush once said that if he hadn’t been elected ...

I agree with William Plummer’s 1803 assessment of John Randolph of Roanoke, Virginia; “I admire his ingenuity and address, but I dislike hi...

(I wrote the following column in October of 2008, and thought it might make interesting reading in light of the Bernie Madoff scandal which...

I have been contemplating, of late, the passing of Saxon England. It died, officially, on the battlefield at Hastings in 1066, but to tell ...