I dedicate this question, which is at the core of the book with which I am struggling, to Donald Trump.
When we think of power, the word itself...
Robert Koehler is an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist and nationally syndicated writer. Contact him at koehlercw@gmail.com or visit his website at commonwonders.com.
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13 November 2025
It occurs to me that “giving birth to the future” isn’t simply a metaphor.
I say this as I continue wrestling with infinity – that is to say, working...
05 November 2025
Let him rest in . . . peace?
I don’t know. The irony of those words is a little too much for me to grasp as I sit here contemplating the death of...
29 October 2025
I’m trying to find my way back into The Possible Future, the working title of the book I started over a decade ago and eventually lost hold of....
22 October 2025
Shouts and honking horns . . . and a country being born?
Hey, hey, ho, ho . . . I don’t know. it’s been four days ago, as I write, that the second No...
15 October 2025
I sit here at my desk, looking out the window – and see someone walking through the parking lot. This is the most ordinary of moments. I shrug quietly. Life...