Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...

Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.

Critical thinking is to a liberal education as faith is to religion. ... the converse was true also - faith is to a liberal education as critical thinking is to religion, irrelevant and even damaging.

We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.

I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.

If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.