The Radical Center

The question came from my five year-old son sitting in the backseat of the car. "Dad, what would happen if our team lost at war?...

My grandmother once told me the reason she was a Democrat was because FDR ended the Great Depression. I pointed out that it wasn’t FDR, but ...

I once watched an episode of ER where a small child had been shot while playing with his mother’s gun. At the end of the episode, the child’...

What’s a billion dollars? Well, for most of us it’s a whole bunch of money. For others, like congressmen and senators, it’s a scrap that the...

Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan started a firestorm last week when he warned that we face financial and economic calamity lest...

[Note: A 2021 op-ed piece looks back at the country's attitude towards gay marriage at the time this was written.] Remember when the fe...

Well, Lewis Williams is dead. He was executed recently for the 1983 murder of an elderly Cleveland woman. I guess I should feel better now. ...

Originally appeared in the Cincinnati Enquirer, December, 2003 If they ever exhume the body of Thomas Jefferson and find him laying face dow...

I always get a kick out of watching the opening ceremonies at the Olympics. Without knowing which nation you are watching, you can almost al...

During a discussion on heredity in the eighth grade, a teacher commented that one might have a large nose if their father had one, too. A cl...