What if Christmas is a core belief in the birth of Jesus Christ who lived among us and many times offered a freely given promise of eternal life that no believer should reject or apologize for? What if Christmas is the rebirth of Christ in the hearts of all believers? What if Christmas is the ...
It's being said by conservatives and liberals: America faces a crisis of affordable housing. And the way out of it is to build more houses. Wouldn't it make more sense to first understand the extent of the problem? Real estate interests have sucked in advocates for the poor in their YIMBY (Yes ...
The holidays are messy. Families are messy. People are stressed and in perpetual pursuit of the recreated perfect memory that really was not but has become idealized. We do this to ourselves: debt, guilt, grief, depression, worry, frenzy, and then the lights go out, the trash packed away, and ...
An effective way of handing elections to right-wing Republicans is to label large blocs of voters as wrong by virtue of their gender, race, ethnicity, age. Those are physical characteristics, not walking opinions. Yet this self-destructive habit is routinely practiced by some on the left, ...
Institutional rot. That's the verdict recorded in recent days on the performance of leading institutions by observers not known for pessimistic temperaments or alarmist analysis. One occasion for such judgments was the testimony of three presidents of eminent universities — Harvard, the ...
WASHINGTON — The days get shorter, darker, colder. This solstice season the descent feels more real. Then there's 2024 to brace for. It's all there in the midnight clear here in the heartbeat of the free world. We're lighting menorah candles and Christmas trees, but without much incandescent ...
I've been thinking about the Parthenon marbles too much lately, having imaginary arguments in my head with museum curators and conservative Britons about how overdue their repatriation to Greece is. That might make me sound a little nutty, but there has been, to be fair to me, a lot of media ...
Nikki Haley is the dark horse in the Republican presidential race that Democrats should watch closely as she gains ground by the day, hair flying with the wind. Brace for a "Hail Nikki" surge while former President Donald Trump's troubles with the law mount and his grip on reality loosens and ...
For those dismayed at how many college and university students and faculty, even, or especially, at selective and prestigious institutions, have been cheering Hamas' Oct. 7 atrocities and calling, in only slightly veiled language, for the destruction of Israel and genocide of Jews, the question ...
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind." — Hosea 8:7 The debacle of the nearly 20-year American occupation of Afghanistan continues in Joe Biden's America today. This disaster began when President George W. Bush — stung deeply by the intelligence that he failed to ...
