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  Trendy people make no secret of their trendiness. They proclaim it as if it were worthy of imitation. In my reading, which is not always pleasant, I came across a sentence that rises from the very heart of trendiness: “Lifestyle always overpowers traditional morality.” It is a... Read More →

    Following the natural order of things, my paternal great-grandfather died well before I was born. I bear the same name he did, except, of course, he was Pietro. A Calabrese who left his homeland for the confounding strangeness of this new world, he came over on the... Read More →