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Dear Children, The years have turned over and suddenly you are 16 and 19 years old—a young man with a 4G phone and a young woman in college.  You have never known anything but wireless and mobility. You are living in interesting times, dear chil [...]

Posted by Ben Kamin • 19 days ago • View comments

James Arness, aka Matt Dillon, was among those who died in 2011; a lot died with him. He was tall, lean, and carried a grim humanity about him.  James Arness, handpicked by John Wayne (who had better things to do in 1955), portrayed the signature Mar [...]

Posted by Ben Kamin • 31 days ago • View comments

I wrote this favorite column after realizing, after several painful interludes, and an inner struggle against the vanity of "winning" such a remarkable and beautiful and wise woman, that this second marriage had to be stored in my heart and not go to my h [...]

Posted by Ben Kamin • 39 days ago • 1 Comment(s)

I keep thinking about the heretofore anonymous suffering of the boys—now men—who live still in the legal and social shadows of the crimes allegedly committed upon them by “mentoring” role models at more than one major university.  “Penn [...]

Posted by Ben Kamin • 57 days ago • View comments

Sometime in the blistering heat of 1965, while Martin Luther King, Jr. and his allies were marching for the nation’s first inclusive voting rights bill, a wiry, feisty, articulate Baptist minister stood up to the condescending white sheriff of Dallas C [...]

Posted by Ben Kamin • 68 days ago • View comments