Three Reasons Writers Today Should Use a Typewriter
Typewriters are like bicycles or stick shift cars. They command your full attention. Make a mistake and you pay the price. In a digital age, that’s more a blessing than a curse. Read more
Prudence
A Diplomat Important Enough to Be Hated (Review #4)
John Gunther Dean’s career milestones sound almost like a recruiting ad for the Foreign Service. His action-packed memoir got me thinking: What if we Americans got the political leaders we wanted? Read more
The Only 30 Pages You Should Read in “Getting Things Done”
Give credit to business consultant David Allen for devising an ingenious method for regaining attention and concentration in a digital age. Just don’t leap to the conclusion his other four principles for personal productivity are trailblazing. Read more
How Evil is Putin?
A psychopathic murderer possesses nuclear weapons. Discussing the nature of this evil would be more prudential and healthier for American culture than ideological discussions on the right and left. Read more
Putin’s Grim Childhood Foretells Disaster Ahead
Why did Russian leader Vladimir Putin order his country to invade Ukraine? The answer is more complicated than the standard view that he remains embittered by the collapse of the Soviet Union. You can find it in a series of interviews he gave after becoming Russia’s president. Read more