As the rain falls, a father walks his son to Garfield Elementary through a flooded section of Peach and Need Avenues, on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, in Clovis, Calif. John Walker/The Fresno Bee via AP.

The greatness of good men

What could be more worthy of celebration, of putting pen to paper and etching something on the unknown future unfurling before us, than the greatness of good men? 

Seen on a screen of a device in La Habra, Calif., the new iPad Mini is introduced during a virtual event held to announce new Apple products Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. Jae C. Hong/AP Photo.

Against convenience

We wanted convenience, and now we have it—or rather it has us. We have become slaves to convenience. In the name of efficiency, time-saving, and productivity, we have sleep-walked into an inhuman nightmare.

In this photo taken Monday, April 27, 2009, Dustin Mowe, president of wine cork supplier Portocork, sniffs a 2008 Chardonnay at the L'Ecole No. 41 winery in Lowden, Wash., near Walla Walla, Wash. Elaine Thompson/AP Photo.

Everyday Chardonnay

It has been simultaneously at the height and bottom of fashion for a quarter of a century. On the one hand, most of the most expensive white wines in the world are Chardonnay made from Burgundy or Champagne. On the other hand, Chardonnay is not cool no matter how much it might cost.

In this July 11, 2012 file photo, Occupy Wall Street protestors walk past the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Frank Franklin II/AP Photo.

Thomas Piketty is still wrong

A powerful rebuke to Piketty’s work is in a new study, The Myth of American Inequality: How the Government Biases Policy Debate, which makes a strong case that everything we know about income inequality and poverty in the U.S. is wrong.