Discouraging to hear that the incoming Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco was arrested for drunk driving. Salvatore Cordileone, now the bishop of Oakland, is a tough guy who has a very ...
In Ashes and Diamonds, Jerzy Andrzejewski’s 1948 novel of postwar power-jockeying in Poland, the aristocratic, anti-communist Col. Staniewicz asserts, “In today’s set-up we Poles are divided into two ...
Three years ago I watched a PBS documentary about the high school basketball team in tiny Medora, Indiana. The team had not won a game in several seasons and lost most by wide margins. The ...
You meet the nicest people at the Walker Percy Weekend, especially on the Front Porch Bourbon Tour. My friend and co-organizer James Fox-Smith and I spoke to Mary Pratt Percy Lobdell, one of ...