Did Robin Williams frighten you?

“So don’t be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in...

The Devolution of Belgium:A view from the future

Bob Schieffer, of CBS News, recently lamented on the condition of the world. It’s gone mad, he said. Then he quoted Will Durant.   “Barbarism, like the jungle, does not die out, but only retreats behind the barriers that civilization has thrown up...