(Because of the events of last week, I feel this blog bears repeating.) Few would argue against the notion that under Donald Trump’s Presidency, American democracy has been tested at all levels of government.  How far that testing has gone is a cause for concern for many. Recently,

The 2020 election is probably one of the most strange in American history.  We have a president whom some experts believe is mentally ill and who is so desperate to win reelection, he refuses to disavow support from QAnon,  a cult-like group that believes “deep state” officials

Recently, I wrote a review of John Updike’s Bech at Bay, a book  I didn’t want to read but did.  Now I’ll turn to two books I have yet to read but hope to do so. The first is The Hunting of Hillary, by Pulitzer prize-winning biographer Michael D’Antonio. The second is Pelosi

In his popular novel, The Overstory, Richard Powers creates a woman who devotes her life to the study of trees.  Her diligence rewards her.  She makes an astounding discovery.  Trees communicate with each other through the air.  Though her research is scrupulous, her male colleagu