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I was recently reminded of something the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote, which I’ll paraphrase: In fighting monsters, beware that you don’t become a monster. When you gaze too

Two weeks ago, I joined sociologist Jerry Lembcke in debunking the myth of the spat-upon Vietnam veteran, and I shared the story of my own homecoming.

Move over “Twilight Zone” creator Rod Serling. There is indeed “a fifth dimension — a dimension not of sight and sound but of imagination.” It’s the dimension in which Donald

My birthday falls in January. How old am I? Last year, I admitted to being past the biblically allotted three-score-and-ten. This year, let’s just say I’m older than dirt. My

Christmas and I have had a storied past. Readers may remember my column about Mrs. Palm’s first Christmas with my family (“My ghosts of Christmases past,” Dec. 26, 2021), or

Please don’t hold it against me, but I spent a lot of time going around in academic circles — pun intended.

Don’t get me wrong. I come this week to condemn Hamas, not to praise them. As I acknowledged last time, the Palestinian people of Gaza have grievances aplenty against Israel, but there is no justification for the primal savagery Hamas displayed on Oct. 7.

“Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong.” That lyric from the Buffalo Springfield 1966 protest song “For What It’s Worth” speaks to my frame of mind about the tragic events unfolding now

The recent articles on the tobacco industry in Virginia resonated with me. (“Virginia growers and cigarette makers...,” Oct. 8; “Companies consider the future...,” Oct. 9.) I smoked from age 15

“O my prophetic soul!” Shakespeare’s Hamlet exclaims when his father’s ghost reveals that his brother had murdered him to claim the throne and, along with it, his wife, the queen.