Eat your hearts out, American exceptionalists. Last week I heard a fascinating piece on KJZZ, Arizona’s local NPR station, about the upcoming Mexican election, which will take place in June 2024. Although we don’t inform ourselves much about Mexican politics, preferring to think Mexico is run by its cartels, we…

Today something wonderful happened. I had lunch with 15 or so people I have never met in person before, some of whom had flown in from Japan or San Francisco or Toronto and others were local to Los Angeles. I had flown into Los Angeles from Phoenix. Why? Because when…

Everyone from sports teams to toddlers has begun to meditate. Meditation has been sold as a way to lower your blood pressure, put you to sleep, wake you up, and relieve your anxiety. Once when I was in the Himalayas, hoping to meet the Dalai Lama, I came across a…

When endless hounding by the Department of Justice and the FBI cause an old friend of yours to drive himself to a lonely road in Arizona on a weekday morning and put a bullet through his head, it is hard to believe that our justice system is worth the money…

There must be something we can do about phone and text spam from political entities. We are more than a year out from the next election and already I am being interrupted over my phone every 15 minutes to be told that I am the only Democrat who hasn’t signed…

One Movie Was Enough What should I say about Oppenheimer? That I remember dimly reading about the execution of the Rosenbergs in 1953, and the denial of Oppenheimer’s security clearance in 1954? And the Army-McCarthy hearings the same year? I do. …

Video of man being pinned by police over a $5 pizza in Kansas City Walmart sparks outrage Two Kansas City officers are being disciplined after they pinned Dayton Borisouth to ground, asking him to see his…www.usatoday.com Law-enforcement is out of control. This morning I was reading an article in my local paper about a man who was thrown to the ground by police because he didn’t show his receipt for a five dollar frozen pizza quickly enough.

Professors in colleges all over the world are confronting a new question: What is cheating anyway? And how do we control it in the age of AI. Answer: we don’t. It was never the important part of learning. When I was in school, we learned to cover part of our…

Last week a former president of the United States was found liable for sexual assault and defamation. I’m sure you already know that the assaulter was Donald Trump, the likely Republican nominee for President in 2024. The assaultee, E. Jean Carroll, is a couple of years my junior (who isn’t?)…