I am unclear what a 'role model' is, but those who used the term seemed to be saying that teachers are people children tend to emulate. In any event, many Miamians must have thought their children would become homosexual if subjected to homosexual teachers. That prompted me to ponder teachers I haven't seen, and scarcely thought about, for decades, and for the first time I reflected on how their sex lives had affected my own. My first thought was that it was curious, perhaps perverse, that I have not turned out to be a spinster.

While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated b…

There is no business like show business, Irving Berlin once proclaimed, and thirty years ago he may have been right, but not anymore. Nowadays almost every bus…

The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.

Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

She taught us Hygiene. And you know what that meant: s-x, pr-cr-ation and p-r--ds.