A beautiful Alaska spring dawns, threatened by an evil we can’t see
I look out my window and see the world that was, not the world that will be.
Literature offers lessons from pandemics past
“It ain’t over 'til it’s over,” to quote not Daniel Defoe but Yogi Berra.
What defines a ‘leftist’? Depends who you ask.
A wise old man I met in New York told me “All analysis begins with a definition of terms.”
Our deaths, our graves and how we’re remembered
I had the impression that the visitors who left tributes at one famous grave were serious, but not all serious in the same way.
In painting a rosy picture, Gov. Dunleavy omits the chaos he caused
He more or less threw a blue tarp over contemporary history and said “Don’t look.”
We all want to do the right thing. But how?
The Bible asks, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” The answer is unclear to me. If you have an obligation, is there one way to fulfill your obligation? Many ways?
If this is the best defense Dunleavy supporters can muster, he’s in real trouble
No other governor in my lifetime has been as unpopular as Mike Dunleavy. No other governor in my lifetime has shown such callous indifference to his fellow Alaskans.
Of elephants and authoritarian governments
Dr. Jolly West was a government agent, protecting the nation’s future. Yet this is the work of the proverbial mad scientist.
Baseball’s ‘Black Sox’ scandal a century ago reminds us how much our expectations have changed
We are an imperfectly regulated society now, but we don’t leave “on the level” strictly to the marketplace.
As Dunleavy sows, so shall he reap
A Dunleavy ally’s characterization of Senate President Cathy Giessel as a hater was extreme. But that’s the Dunleavy administration in a single word: extreme.
Why ‘Walden’ endures, in spite of everything
‘Lives of quiet desperation’ is not much help in understanding how people actually live. How could Thoreau — or anybody else — know? Talk about a grand inference.
If the university is a house on fire, Gov. Dunleavy is the arsonist
By voting for consolidation, the regents are building a hovel out of blackened two-by-fours and bronzed bricks that have survived the flames.