James Madison and Walt Kelly, creator of the Pogo comic strip, had this much in common:  they both concluded that we are the problem. Kelly issued his most famous pronouncement —…

David O. Stewart, novelist?  Pretty soon.  The following notice just ran on Publishers Marketplace: “Author of SUMMER OF 1787, the recently published AMERICAN EMPEROR, on Aaron Burr, and a forthcoming…

Wednesday marked the 208th anniversary of the duel between Vice President Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, former Secretary of the Treasury.  In the dawn hours, each traveled to a lonesome…

Three recent events reinforce the wisdom of this remark by William Faulkner in Requiem for a Nun.  First, the New York Times is starting a series of pieces to be written…