Conscience in War

As the savage harvest of World War I was underway in Europe, Sigmund Freud offered this less than prescient comment in an essay entitled “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death”: When the frenzied conflict of this war shall have been decided, every one of...

Local Boy Cracks Wise

Springfield native Mark Oppenheimer reads from his new memoir, Wisenheimer: A Childhood Subject to Debate, at South Hadley’s Odyssey Bookshop tonight at 7 p.m. Wisenheimer tells the story of the angst Oppenheimer experienced as a hyper-articulate kid whose...