Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are. Some people even said at the time that his episodes of M*A*S*H, with their unblinking account of the costs of war, helped our country lose its patience with the...

Richard Feynman will be among the Nobel Prize winners at the World Science Festival this month. In a way.

I'll be doing a reading of QED, the play about Feynman, and as I get ready to step into his life again, I'm hit by a wave of fondness and...

It takes exactly three minutes of my life and it happens most mornings. I scoop into a bowl some cold oatmeal that I've cooked in a huge pot at the beginning of the week and zap it in the microwave for three minutes. I know some people think oatmeal is...