Michael Varga

I love our country. I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Africa in the 1970s. I served as a Foreign Service Officer...

The lines of Iranians formed early every day. Often they came straight from the airport. They would line up outside the American consulate...

Each of us follows a unique destiny, even as we know we will each wind up dead one day. Some people afflicted with...

Often the word “outlier” is used in cancer treatment to describe a patient who beats the odds and lives longer than expected. Those...

In the middle of an exam, my Chadian students suddenly stood up and fled my classroom. A minute before, they had seen through...

Two Americans were asking for a meeting with me. They had traveled from Alabama to Washington to lobby for more assistance to Lebanon,...

In 1995 at the G-7 Summit in Halifax (Canada), Secretary of State Warren Christopher was meeting with the Japanese finance minister. Somehow the...

When I was a sophomore in high school, I was cast in a production of the musical play, Guys & Dolls. I was...

In 1995 the doctors told me I would probably be dead of AIDS by April 1997. I had retired early from the U.S....

In 1986 I was the vice-consul at the American Consulate General in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It was my first assignment in the...