I’m a believer in connecting the dots, even if they are years apart. Two dots struck me this week, essays that argue for deep observation. One, written in the early 1870s, sounds eerily like another, ...

ST. LOUIS – Anyone who visits the St. Louis Aquarium at Union Station can draw a fish and then watch it be brought to life. Videos of the Fish Draw have gone viral on social media. There is a coloring ...