I am writing on the day that Pope Francis passed away. I am sure many people wonder why this event of the death of the head of the Catholic Church is in the news and the regular press. He served in this office and has represented the structure and moral standards that the Church brings to ...
Pope Francis was meant to be a pontiff for the age of globalization. The pope's spiritual mission doesn't change, but its earthly context does, and when the College of Cardinals chose Argentina's Jorge Maria Bergoglio as successor to the retiring Pope Benedict XVI, they made a guess about where ...
If the Trump regime can dictate what the universities of America teach or research or publish, or what students can learn or say, no university is safe. Not even the truth is safe. If the Trump regime can revoke student visas because students exercise their freedom of speech on a university ...
The following is a transcript of a phone call you made last month to your internet service provider after you discovered that your internet was out. Suspiciously robotic voice: Hello! You've reached Bromtast. My name is Valerie. How can I help you today? You: Hi, "Valerie." I'm having trouble ...
To the Editor: Fifty-five years ago on April 22, 1970, the largest, the cleanest, most peaceful demonstration, that ever occurred in America’s history, HAPPENED! My generation created a new kind of movement. A movement which aligned high school students, college campus militants, wilderness ...
Kafkaesque. One hears that word a lot in discussions of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Or, for lowbrows like me, "The Twilight Zone" might be the pertinent reference. Abrego Garcia is the Maryland man who was wrongly deported and imprisoned without trial in a grim prison in El Salvador. In March, ...