An Older, Better Future

Demography’s specter is haunting Europe, where low native birthrates and aging populations pose serious questions about national economies and their apparently indispensable social welfare. Birthrates in some European countries are under replacement levels. Others have either zero or low growth. Europe’s aging population supposedly means that an ...


Aging More Gracefully Than England

As I write these words and watch them grow into sentences, I am living the final hours of my fifties. By the time you read this, I"€™ll be sixty years old. Or, as French and other Romance languages put it, I shall have sixty years. ...

Oliver Stone: Older, Wiser, and Worse

A cinematic development I hadn"€™t expected is Oliver Stone evolving into a director who makes movies that are fair, responsible, and forgettable. His sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, with Michael Douglas returning as reptilian ...

10 Things About Turning 40

After 39 years of not being 40, I decided to give it a try. Being two score is unlike anything before it so I feel it would be prudent to warn you about a few things... 1) YOU DON"€™T CARE WHAT PEOPLE THINK In my late 20s, I asked a ...


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