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We live in an age of too much. Too much food is choking our arteries. Too much stuff is clogging our landfills. Our rambling McMansions and tanklike SUVs are deepening our addiction… Read Article →

I’m no eco-saint. But since the drought, my motto has become “it’s the least I can do so I do it.” My lawn is turning brown, just like my once-white car—don’t touch!… Read Article →

You never forget your first. That’s why Anne Fadiman holds a special place in my heart. Her splendid essay collection, “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader,” ignited my powerful passion for… Read Article →

The sun was sitting high in the sky and I was near a shady tree as my kids splashed in the pool. Life is good. Then I picked up the paper: bombings… Read Article →

Over dinner a few weeks ago, the novelist Lawrence Naumoff told a troubling story. He asked students in his introduction to creative writing course at UNC-Chapel Hill if they had read Jack… Read Article →

In his column arguing that owner Daniel Snyder should change the name of the Washington Redskins, New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden writes: “Snyder remains tone-deaf to the major spiritual tenet that… Read Article →

President Obama at West Point last month: “Four and a half years later, as you graduate, the landscape has changed. We have removed our troops from Iraq. We are winding down our… Read Article →

I often wonder if liberals are really as freaked out by climate change as they’d have us believe. If I thought apocalypse was in the cards if we didn’t make some changes… Read Article →