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Libby Speaks 7: A Qualified Candidate for President

June 10, 2024 Tags: fiction, humor, morality and justice, politics, satire

Republican Council Member Max Morano was working late at the office—late for him—when he heard the news of the jury’s verdict in the case against his party’s candidate for President. “Perversion of justice,” he yelled to everyone and no

Libby Speaks 6: Conventional Thinking

June 5, 2024 Tags: fiction, humor, morality and justice, politics, satire

“One more state to go to a Constitutional convention.” So proclaimed Republican Council Member Max Morano’s latest tweet. Having read it, Gavin Kane, his Democratic counterpart, summoned his chief of staff, Tina Millette. “What’s he getting at

The Only Time I Ran for Office

March 27, 2024 Tags: memoir, morality and justice

Darien High School’s chess club, of which I was one of seven members, met to elect a new president. I'd begun at the club two years earlier by beating another new member twice in a row. My opponent, Jeff, now a senior like me, turned out to be our

Bullying: What’s a Parent To Do?

January 12, 2024 Tags: family, memoir, morality and justice

1 My most painful experience of bullying occurred in a taxi. Each day for two years, from the age of eleven to thirteen, I shared a taxi with three or four other children to and from school. Why the taxi? We were in the first group of partially

Moral Compass

December 18, 2023 Tags: memoir, morality and justice

1 The subject that afternoon, our teacher, Mr. Slater, told us, would be how to play chess. "Chess is about checkmate, about trapping your opponent’s king,” he said from the front of the classroom. “It isn't about taking pieces. Only mediocre

What Elise Stefanik’s Inquisition Actually Revealed

December 12, 2023 Tags: censorship, journalism and reporting, morality and justice, politics

Freedom of speech is essential if sound ideas are to be promoted and flourish and if dangerous ideas are to be exposed and wither. It can be a difficult freedom to defend. At a Congressional hearing last Tuesday, following the terrible events of

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