Radio Free New Hampshire: An Expert Opinion

Confession: I don’t know how computers work. When mine goes south, I stab random buttons. I turn it on and off. I swear out loud. It usually works again after a while and then I move along. Ditto for my phone, ditto for my car, ditto for the other machinery on which I rely any given day.

Radio Free New Hampshire: Through a Glass Darkly

Jeffrey Epstein, Rob Reiner, crypto deals, the Kennedy Center; Venezuela, the White House, vaccinations and wind farms. That is only the past few weeks. As 2025 limps to an end, it hardly seems possible that so much has transpired and the primary catalyst for so much sadness has been one man.

Michael Davidow in black and white in front of a window

Radio Free N.H. — My Annual Chanukah Column

Priesthoods belong to settled cultures. They mark agricultural surplus, centralized administration and social hierarchy. Prophets ignore those things. They are individuals who claim a special relationship to the divine. Prophets and priests are natural opponents. Nothing rattles an established priesthood like a new vision of truth.

Radio Free New Hampshire: Autumn Book Report

The years came and went and the big sea that Melville wrote about stayed where it had always been, off the New England coast, and as his hero Ishmael writes about the feeling of November in his soul, I soon linked this book to autumn and I would find myself reading it accordingly every few years.