Jack Loeffler is 87 years old, but you wouldn’t know he’s an octogenarian by the way he passionately talks about the many lives he has lived. And still lives. “I’m autonomous and still healthy enough ...

Polemic seems to have gone the way of the typewriter and the soda fountain. The word was once associated with the best practitioners of the form: Voltaire, Jonathan Swift, George Orwell, Rebecca West.

Reacting to Wendy Davis' 2013 anti-abortion in the Texas Legislature, playwright C. Denby Swanson, author of "The Norwegians," resolved to write a play about a woman's right to choose and the effect ...