Editorial

Jimmy Kimmel is not a victim

Jimmy Kimmel is not a very funny man. He reminds me of the prep school boys I used to teach back in the 1990s. They had a snotty kind of humor, an ironic “I’m so smart, ha ha” type of affect that stops being cute when you are an adult making millions of dollars mocking people you don’t like.

Walker Percy’s impact on Louisiana

Many readers who love Louisiana literature will gather this weekend in St. Francisville to celebrate the life and works of novelist Walker Percy. He was, to me, a literary icon who spent most of his life in Louisiana. Many consider him to be America’s most significant Catholic writer.

Shall we welcome back fall 1975 TV?

“Welcome back, your dreams were your ticket out…” —John Sebastian The fall 1975 TV season remains special for me for several reasons. For one thing, it’s when I began my life’s mission of collecting Fall Preview issues of “TV Guide.

Real crime in the U.S.A. : fatherlessness

In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan was roundly criticized for predicting the violent, hopeless future millions of children from broken families now face.

Instead of dying, he changed face of farming

When the railroad crossed the Louisiana prairies in 1880, land thought only suitable for wild cattle became accessible to farmers from the Midwest who flocked here to firmly establish Louisiana’s rice industry. One of those emigres was Seaman A.

Little Sisters of the Poor win the big fight

When the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate went into effect in 2012, the Obama people wanted the vast majority of companies and private institutions to comply.

Class reunions: yea or nay?

“Wouldn’t miss it for the world.” “Let me check my calendar.” “Meh.” “You mean I still haven’t outlived all those #@%& low-lifes?” As you doubtless know, those are the four main responses when a class reunion invitation arrives.

Saloon keeper solved big drilling problem

One of the most novel solutions for a huge problem in tapping the oil under south Louisiana wetlands was the brainchild of a Panamanian saloon keeper who’d never set foot here.

The end of a witch hunt of a city’s mayor

Everything changes, nothing is constant, not even death, for the soul is eternal, or taxes, thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill.

Time for Trump to show Putin who’s boss

Mr. Trump, “Tear down that Putin!” That’s something my father might say at this point if he were watching Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy still struggling to end the bloody war in Ukraine. Trump is in Alaska to meet face-to-face with Putin.