It is a fresh night in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where strangers are kind and beauty is overflowing. “It doesn’t matter where you’re coming from — it matters where you’re going to” is a common refrain in America. Arnold Schwarzenegger embraced it on the campaign trail in 2003. …

It has been a chilly night in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where strangers are kind and beauty is overflowing. Observationally, Russia does not appear to distinguish between military aggression and cultural and economic influence. If anything, Russia deems a military invasion more noble. An invasion does not corrupt and does…

It is a fresh, peaceful night in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where strangers are kind and beauty is overflowing. Meanwhile in India, they have quotas just about everywhere to discriminate based on just about everything: religion, region, language, and caste. Even the judiciary is not immune to the tacit understanding…

It is a cool, quiet night in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where strangers are kind and beauty is overflowing. Customer service is not what to used to be. Lucky to be alive and availing himself of the services still rendered, the customer should not complain. As a matter of intellectual…

It has been a fresh night in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where strangers are kind and beauty is overflowing. January 1 at the Top of the Mark. One would hope for, if not the regular piano accompaniment, then at least Muzak. Instead, the patrons — some beshorted, some besotted, all…

It has been a chilly night in in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where strangers are kind and beauty is overflowing. Universities used to be run by academics. Or so the legend goes. This no longer appears to be the case. I cannot fully articulate why it appears so. Nor do…

It is a clear day in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where strangers are kind and beauty is overflowing. The medieval Parisian tradition of burning cats over a bonfire can be viewed as a tax on cats. Cats consume the public good of urban infrastructure. Therefore, it is only fair to…

It’s been a warm, clear day in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where strangers are kind and beauty is overflowing. Disneyland decouples high-density mingling, which most crave for, from high-density living, which most accept as a price to pay for high-density mingling. Disneyland purveys an American counterpart of flâneuring. One does…

It’s a warm, pieceful night in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where strangers are kind and beauty is overflowing. The recent vaccine mandate sports not only medical exemption but also religious one. The rationale for medical exemption is clear: no one stands to gain from gratuitously killing innocent citizens by anaphylaxis…