Every night when my wife and I prepare and then eat dinner, music is playing. This is as intrinsic to our daily routine as the cooking and eating itself. It may be Brazilian samba or American jazz or new age guitar (never rock, seldom classical), but there’s always music.  These days we stream it off the … Continue reading Music in the Home

We Americans dote on our nation’s history, sometimes to excess. We tend to deify the framers of our Constitution, who were indisputably brilliant political philosophers, but human and bound by their time and cultural heritage. And we are prone to regard the document itself as holy writ, though like the Bible, we tend to quote … Continue reading American Democracy 2.0