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Few observations about history have become as familiar as George Santayana’s famous warning: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to...
There comes a moment in every stage of life when we find ourselves opening an old box. Inside are photographs whose corners have curled with age,...
When we tell the story of our lives, we usually begin with the milestones. We graduated. We married. Our children were born. We moved. We changed...
Not long ago, I found myself watching a family at a nearby table at a restaurant. Just before the food arrived, they reached across the table, held...
On July 2, 1978, the day I turned seventeen years old, I left my childhood home in Bogotá, Colombia, and boarded a plane bound for New York. I was...
A few days ago, my wife looked up from the living room and asked: “So, I’m alone again today?” I was puzzled. She was watching television. I was...
At my age, and having grown up in a Latin American country where fútbol is more than a sport, I have watched hundreds, perhaps thousands, of matches....
The Sacredness of Remaining Time: Hospice, Jewish Ethics, and the Moral Meaning of Time at Life’s End There is a moment I have witnessed many times...
Rethinking the Art of the Sermon Several years ago, I began noticing something uncomfortable about my own preaching. People would compliment a sermon...
In 1950, during a lunchtime conversation at Los Alamos, the physicist Enrico Fermi asked a deceptively simple question: “Where is everybody?” He...
In recent months, I have found myself listening to lectures on artificial intelligence and quantum computing with a mixture of fascination and...