Opinions

While much of the political world focused on the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, across town in Washington on Monday, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, delivered a speech that could reverberate through the next two election cycles.

Finally, people have found something to agree about.

It is an undoubtedly good and positive thing for America and the world to witness unvarnished courage and bravery. That’s what we are seeing from the Ukrainian people and their indomitable president, Volodymyr Zelensky. From the beginning, President Zelensky has made clear his intent — and that of his countrymen — to fight the barbaric and unjustified invasion of his country by the Russians.

The contemporary parenting ideal consists of equal parts fixer, go-fer, and friend, which is why, when it is encountered in the flesh by someone of my ancient age, the new definition of a “good parent” seems so out of whack. Our parents were anything but the new ideal, as evidenced by one of their favorite parenting aphorisms: “You made this bed; therefore, YOU will lie in it.”