Jeff Epton's In & Out

It was the different leaves of a different tree rustling in the wind a millennium ago. Or a millennium ahead, as if now and then mattered. I...

  When one gets steam-rolled, as many of us were the Tuesday before last, one gets back up, dusts oneself off, hugs family and community, an...

We all know people who are furious at Joe Biden because he has not reined in Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and because Biden ...

Proceeds from the tax will fund increases in spending to address homelessness I recently wrote the Chicago Tribune a letter criticizing thei...

A recent letter-to-the-editor that NYT did not print. Oh, well. It still has a home here on In and Out. Editor, The New York Times   A recen...

... I can be Before I elaborate on that statement in, hopefully, efficient detail, I want to note that my previous three blog entries (varia...

On Sept. 17, the Trib published a letter from me responding to Shmuly Yanklowitz's message about ethical self-review over the Jewish New...

A great book with a great message around which we should mobilize In the park with Jetta a couple days ago, thinking about all sorts of peop...

In the last month, I’ve discovered anew, notwithstanding my advanced and advancing age, that I really do still care about a lot of stuff. Ab...

We are all implicated In 2002, working with the women of Sankofa Community Outreach and Restoration (SCOR), I produced a pamphlet that share...

I find the constant angst over the national debt quite frustrating and, thoroughly vexed, I'm always hunting for a succinct explanation ...

A history of our frightening future   The Deluge  is both a fine novel and a frightening and convincing history of our future. At almost 900...