Some of those jingly jangly camp songs still pop into my head from time to time (this one, in the tune of ‘The Old Grey

What does Memorial Day mean to you? I have never served in the armed forces or participated in a war, but as a student of

In 1972, Ira Levin published a short little book. It’s a dark satire of gender and what men and women actually want and what they

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In 1909, G.K. Chesterton wrote a response to a letter writer, concerned about fairy tales that exposed children to the evils of witchcraft: Fairy tales,

The chorus and lyrics of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” kept rattling around in my head this week. I’m not sure if it

Apparently there was a fight in the high school lunchroom. The principal asked many students and teachers who witnessed the fight to write down what