Sondra Myers

Editor: Beyond their ideologies and mindsets, we look for traits in presidents that are, let’s say, presidential. This includes leadership skills, decisiveness, wise prioritizing, empathy, diplomatic capacity and other attributes. In an age in which we recognize bullying as a

Editor: Pessimism is a luxury we can’t afford. We have not earned the right to be pessimistic; it is a sedative if not an anesthetic. If people who have reason to be hopeless — take the throngs of people leaving

Editor: Are the media the message? Marshall McLuhan’s 1967 declaration was incomprehensible but provocative at the time and seems all too true today. Television networks are owned by corporations that have — of course — corporate mindsets. That means that

Editor: You might say we lost our innocence on Sept. 11, 2001. We discovered belatedly that we were vulnerable to the attacks of people who saw our freedom and our culture as a threat to theirs. Those who despise or

Editor: Not to be melodramatic, but I cannot prevent thinking about William Butler Yeats’ lines in his masterful poem, “The Second Coming,” “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold: Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” He was, of course,

Editor: Don’t we wish that we didn’t have to make pacts with “the devil?”  In a perfect world—that world that we will never know—the high road is the “stairway to Paradise.” But in the real world we have to deal