Dr. ESP 
If you think today’s entry is about the squabbles between the White House and Pope Leo XIV, you are half right. To paraphrase Chief Justice John Roberts’ recent assessment of the relationship between modernity and the founding documents, the Pope may be new but the White House remains the same. In this case, “Pope” refers … Read more
There is a scene in Milos Forman’s 1984 adaptation of the Peter Shaffer play “Amadeus” when Emperor Joseph II (Jeffrey Jones) first meets Wolfgang Mozart (Tom Hulce). The young prodigy demonstrates his ability to improvise by playing his own rendition of Antonio Salieri’s “Welcome March,” which Salieri, the court composer, had written to honor his … Read more
This morning’s New York Times included a guest essay by retired marine general and former commander of the U.S. Central Command Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr. In “Iran Got Trump All Wrong,” McKenzie lauds Donald Trump’s use of U.S. military power as an effective tool for tempering the influence and geopolitical agenda of the Iranian Islamic … Read more
I want you to look at him in all of his glory: “Larry the Liquidator.” The entrepreneur of post-industrial America, playing God with other people’s money. The robber barons of old at least left something tangible in their wake- a coal mine, a railroad, banks. This man leaves nothing. He creates nothing. He builds nothing. … Read more
