Best Of

Between 1987 and 2008, I wrote a few hundred weekly columns for The Palm Beach Post.

Most were as the paper’s news ombudsman. Many were columns of general interest. There also were innumerable essays as a member of the editorial board expressing the institutional view of the newspaper. And there were some special writing projects.

Some of those are linked here.

My thanks to the readers who encouraged me in this work, to the management of The Post which provided me the opportunity and support, and to dear colleagues who still are working to make the newspaper work.

OMBUDSMAN COLUMNS:

IN TRIBUTE to LANGSTON HUGHES and JESSE B. SEMPLE:

ISLAM, MUSLIMS, FAITH:

MIDEAST: