We all have expectations, good and bad, about where our society is heading.  Depending on whether they are positive or negative, our expectations may lead us either to complacency or to despair.  Are such responses justified?

Many stories include heroes and villains – and I’m not just talking about fiction. Often history is presented as if the participants had been born to play the roles that we, in hindsight, have assigned to them. Do the actors in the stories of our lives … read more.

Willy Loman, the Salesman of Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman, was the flawed son of a father who abandoned him. His father’s absence made him feel, as he put it, “kind of temporary about myself,” throughout the remainder of his life. This won’t be a lecture about … read more.