May 20, 2021
The Sackler Empire
May 13, 2021
Pandemic Premonitions
A year and a half into the COVID story, notice the many unknowns, and one big known. Even now, nobody can tell you absolutely whether...| More
May 6, 2021
COVID in India
The humbling of India, the torment of India, is full of messages for the rest of us. Beware the second wave of the pandemic: that’s...| More
April 29, 2021
Armenia in History and the Heart
Where is Armenia, the place, the idea? Where then? Where now? And how come the delight on top of the darkness in saying “I am...| More
April 22, 2021
The Free World
Recovery and renewal arrived on a flood tide that lifted all kinds of production—culture above all. This was the era that gave the world a...| More
April 15, 2021
Bidenomics
Bidenomics is different, we are beginning to notice. Just keeping score in the trillions of dollars takes some getting used to. But some key rules...| More
April 8, 2021
The Life of Roth
Philip Roth, the late novelist, may hold the record for “most ways to tell his own story,” in fiction and fact; in his psychiatric farce...| More
April 1, 2021
We’ll Always Have Casablanca
You must remember this, the song says. In fact, it’s hard to forget at Oscar time every April, that Casablanca, the Best Picture of 1942,...| More
March 25, 2021
Back to School
The public schools that are reopening this spring are not the same ones that shut down in the COVID cloud a year ago. “Learning in...| More
March 18, 2021
Wagner and Wagnerism
This show originally aired on September 17, 2020. Richard Wagner, man and musician, was the embodiment of excess—too much of a good thing if you...| More
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