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That miracle on the Hudson: Survivors' tales

I’m dying, and I didn’t make the bed!

How would you react if you knew your plane was about to crash? Thanks to the miraculous Hudson River landing of a disabled US Airways flight five years ago, we have some answers. As you might expect, they range from the ridiculous to the sublime.

Roz Warren

Dec 14, 2013 Essays 2 minute read

Millett's 'Gleaners' (1857): Better uses for their brains?

Too many people? (a reply)

Population growth: Quality trumps quantity

A simple increase in the number of brains in the world doesn’t do you any good if the owners of those brains are all working in the rice fields growing rice. One educated brain is worth several dozen illiterate subsistence farmers.

Tom Purdom

Dec 10, 2013 Essays 4 minute read

The man is dead. So why are you chuckling?

Paul Walker’s ironic demise

Give me the simple death

Paul Walker, the star of movies about fiery car crashes, just died in a fiery car crash. Death, always, sucks. But an ironic death? Even worse.

Roz Warren

Dec 07, 2013 Essays 2 minute read

Why destroy a harmless creature that might become your friend?

Fear of spiders, real and projected

The cobwebs of your mind

The real danger posed by the tarantula on my floor lay not with the spider or even with my husband. It lay in my persistent fear of the social and financial consequences of divorce. In the same way, all of us project our fears onto others so that we see threats that don’t exist.

Susan E. Washburn

Dec 03, 2013 Essays 4 minute read

Mel Gibson as Braveheart: Give me childcare or give me death?

Scotland flirts with independence

Calling Rob Roy: It’s time for your breath test

Scotland, the rugged land that gave the world capitalism and more inventions than you can shake a stick at, is now contemplating rugged independence, the better to achieve a welfare state.

David Woods

Dec 03, 2013 Essays 3 minute read

My medical team is ready to serve you, just as soon as you pick the plan that's right for you.

An entrepreneur solves Obamacare

Once and for all: Health care made easy

I am delighted to present PerryCare.gov, your one-stop shop for Obamacare. This is the first ever fully functional, 100% ready-to-use Affordable Care Act Information and Election Website, and it's yours exclusively as a reader of Broad Street Review.

Perry Block

Dec 03, 2013 Essays 3 minute read

Shaun hadn't seen 'It Happened One Night.'

My schoolmate, Shaun Cassidy

Ready for my 15 minutes, Mr. DeMille

When I knew Shaun Cassidy in 1974, he was kind of cute and kind of vapid. But at 16, who wasn't?

Brett S. Harrison

Dec 02, 2013 Essays 4 minute read

Has Obamacare destroyed Obama?

Obama’s bridge too far

The continuing calamity of the Obamacare rollout tells Americans a great deal—about the intractability of our social problems, the gridlock of our political system and above all the character of Barack Obama himself.