Shortly after posting Shocking Social Decay In My Neighborhood a few weeks ago I received a lengthy and thoughtful message from a reader. He said he was a lifetime Democrat,…
The under-40 generation deserves our sympathy and compassion. Random chance and bad fortune have repeatedly decimated their careers, standard of living, and futures. Just as it looks like they are…
When I was in high school in the 1970’s I spent a lot of time in the swamps and forests of Western Oregon. My dad had land in Tillamook County,…
On a dark and moonless Arizona night in 1983 I was driving back to Tucson on Highway 79 after a weekend of skydiving in Coolidge. It was a longish drive…
Lately I’ve been thinking about the Progressive Era in the United States — that time between roughly 1890 and 1920, which saw so many reforms to industry and politics. Upton Sinclair wrote…