Extremists Often Derive Their Inspiration From Literal

With The Perspective Afforded By The Passage Of Time, Where Does 9/11 Rank As A Turning Point In Our National History? For The Victims And Their Families, Innocents Going About Their Lives, Suddenly And Brutally Murdered, No Other Day Can Ever Matter As Much.

The Past Always Seems Somehow More Golden, More Serious, Than The Present. We Tend To Forget The Partisanship Of Yesteryear, Preferring To Re-imagine Our History As A Sure And Steady March Toward Greatness.

In Rich And Captivating Prose, Jessica Dulong Kindly Invites The Rest Of Us On The Journey Of Her Lifetime: From A Dot-com Job To The Fabled Waters Of The Hudson River, Where She Became A Fireboat Engineer. This Is An Unusual And Fascinating Book.

Sometimes Paranoids Have Enemies, And Conspiracies Are Only Laughable When They Fail To Materialize.

While We Remain A Nation Decisively Shaped By Religious Faith, Our Politics And Our Culture Are, In The Main, Less Influenced By Movements And Arguments Of An Explicitly Christian Character Than They Were Even Five Years Ago. I Think This Is A Good Thing - Good For Our Political Culture.