Author: Siegfried Johnson

In 1985, my first year as a doctoral student studying Hebrew/Semitic literature at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, I was hired as an

Daniel Boone, that daring pioneer of the American frontier, ever eager to cross thresholds into uncharted territories, wrote, “I never was lost in the woods

In 1969 at the University of California Berkeley, a promising student felt himself falling behind others he deemed less bright. The under-performing student’s stress level

In 1958, Chevrolet introduced the El Camino. Built on the body of an Impala, Chevy advertised its sedan/pickup truck hybrid as “the most beautiful thing

Struggling through the first and worst of my three bouts with COVID-19 during the pandemic’s early days of 2020, a time when our massive unknowing

As President-elect Trump announces nomination after nomination, putting the crew in place that he considers best equipped to fulfill his lofty promises to American voters,

“That’s the effect of living backwards … It always makes one a little giddy at first.” – The Red Queen to Alice in Lewis Carroll’s

Jacob Bronowski, the celebrated Polish-British philosopher best known for his 1973 documentary series aired on the BBC, “The Ascent of Man,” described a fascinating feature

Last Wednesday evening, watching post-election commentary with a gathering of friends and basking in the glow of President Trump’s increasingly evident landslide victory, just as

Joe Biden’s Zoom gaffe (if a gaffe is what it was), calling Trump supporters garbage, has reverberated throughout America, despite the White House’s dishonest transcript