As 2025 comes to an end, I want to thank my readers who have emailed me throughout the year with encouraging and kind words. I truly appreciate the thoughtfulness put into every message. Due to my teaching and grading load, I am not able to respond to every email, but I am deeply moved that ...
The limbo period between Christmas Day and Jan. 1 is objectively, the most depressing seven days out of the year. I call it the Post-Christmas Blues. How ironic it is that a holiday that is marketed as being a joyous, and beautiful time sometimes brings the most emotional distress. The ...
We were at my brother's residence in San Mateo County, just south of San Francisco -- watching the college football playoffs -- when my sister, who lives in San Francisco's Richmond District, where I was planning on spending the night, texted us to let us know that the power was out in her ...
The Christmas season is a time to reflect on what we have, which includes the kind of society that has made countless blessings possible. The warmth, security and generosity that many Americans experience during the holidays are not accidents or pure gifts of nature. In their tangible sense, ...
Years of bickering over the meaning of American conservatism and the identity of the American Right, which had already escalated in the conspiracy-filled aftermath of coalition lynchpin Charlie Kirk's horrific assassination, reached a fever pitch at Turning Point USA's recent AmericaFest ...
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg once expressed great confidence about his eternal destiny, remarking that he had earned his place in heaven. That sentiment is not uncommon in public life. Achievement, influence, philanthropy or power can quietly become the measuring sticks by which ...