Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'

A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.

A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.

If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.

What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.

We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.