As a public service I begin this column by quoting an e-mail received from an old friend who was stationed in mosquito-rich French Guiana during his time in the Foreign Legion: “In the Legion, we took cloroquine phosphate 6/7 days to prevent malaria. Didn’t always work. When we got it, we took a heavier dose […]

This is a complicated question which everybody most answer according to their own temperament and judgment. If you are fatalistic by temperament the second choice is automatic. If experience has taught you to embrace hopelessness, you also go for #2 because you’ve learned never to expect a good outcome. I’ve learned to embrace hopelessness and […]

To the Editor: As a lifelong citizen of Livermore Falls and a former Selectman, I am writing in support of the New England Clean Energy Connect project that will bring 1200 MW of clean hydro power from Quebec onto the New England grid. I believe the economic benefit to our town will far outweigh any […]

While millions of Americans are thinking about stocking up on toilet paper and other necessities, or about the most convenient way to avoid millions of other Americans, those among us afflicted by the disease called politics are thinking about the electoral consequences of our national emergency. Who comes out ahead in this crisis? Who comes […]

Students of history know about pandemics, we’ve seen them before. So we’re on solid ground when we offer this advice—Survive. That’s what most people have done in the past. This advice will strike most readers as too general to be useful, so here are a couple of practical suggestions: 1) panic; 2) don’t panic. Research […]

Right-wingers of all varieties have recently had a happy moment or two thanks to Brian Williams and Marla Gay, a young woman who speaks as a member of the New York Times editorial board. A tape, available to anyone who has access to Google, shows the pair discussing Michael Bloomberg’s now dead presidential campaign. They […]

Why fire Chris Matthews? The Bernie Bolsheviks have made it clear that they hate CNN and MSNBC and other vehicles of the “corporate media.” They especially hate Chris Matthews, whose talk show “Hard Ball,” reeks of criticism for their candidate. Last week he said something that set their hair on fire and inspired the #FireChrisMatthews […]

I’ve avoided American presidential debates for 60 years and never felt a single twitch of regret. After reading the commentary on the Nevada debate and seeing some taped excerpts I felt for the first time that I missed a show which would have given me much pleasure. A message from a Trump-hating leftist to Steven […]