A couple of years ago I decided that every third or fourth book I read would be a classic that I’d either never encountered, or that I read, haphazardly, while in high school or college.  Without publishing the full list, I’ll volunteer only that I’ve very much enjoyed the undertaking, though Dickens’ Bleak House…

I sat through all three hours of Wednesday evening’s Republican Presidential Debate – dubbed by some pundit as the ‘Simi Marathon’ – waiting for a question that never came. It could have been any one of a number of questions, and it could have taken many different forms: What is your view of school…