A multitude of reasons should compel us to watch Ken Burns’ new PBS series about America’s often deaf and dumb response to the anti-Semitic Nazi genocide. For starters, the antipathy toward immigrants that metastasized on our shores in the early twentieth...
A funny thing happened the other day on Martha’s Vineyard. While I was visiting there with family, we got word that car traffic was immobilizing nearby Edgartown. Turned out, local citizens were flooding in – with food, toys, bedding and medical supplies...
By Chris Satullo I’m having a new and not-so-pleasant experience this election season. It’s the constant bombardment of digital fund-raising messages from Democratic candidates. They’re running for Congress, for governor, for state legislatures...
On this weekend 20 years ago, I was tasked by the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Magazine (RIP) to assess whether Americans had profoundly changed in the 12 months since the lightning traumas of 9/11. You may well remember what that post-9/11 year was like. For...
By Chris Satullo Excuse me a moment, I’m rooting around in my home’s infernal junk drawer, looking for something I need right now to get started. That it? No. This? No. Could it be in this corner? Ouch! Ooh, yes, that’s it. Good reader, I...
