
The ‘Back to School’ Election
What to call the 2020 election? Call it the “Back to School” election, after the film of the same name, in which Donald Trump is […]
What to call the 2020 election? Call it the “Back to School” election, after the film of the same name, in which Donald Trump is […]
When a newspaper denies a holocaust and underreports the Holocaust, when nameless millions lie alongside the victims of a crime without a name, when the […]
If democracy dies in darkness, common sense ends in the newsroom of the Washington Post. All sense of decency fades to black amidst the bleeding […]
In his siren suit and slippers, atop a stack of bound but leftover newspapers from September 30, 1938, next to a butter dish of an […]
From a politician who tweets like a Frenchman to a presidential candidate who acts like one, Pete Buttigieg is Mitt Romney with dermabrasion and a […]
Give writers their pens, soldiers their swords. Do not, however, salute old warriors who write in defense of war without end. Do not let retired […]
The poorest wage slave is braver than the richest slave driver. To prove this point look at the view from the highest point. Cross the […]
One bullet can start a war, but no rifle has enough bullets to end a war. To know this truth is to see our troops […]
When Tom Friedman feels the urge to type, when he acts according to type, when he ties his hospital gown and wears his slippers, when […]
To see the speck in your brother’s eye, to see your brother as guilty of the highest crimes and the lowest deeds, to see so […]
Bill Weld is as much a constitutional scholar as I am a geneticist. His maddening cry for the execution of President Trump is no better […]
What politics forbids, politicians foment—namely, absurdity. The absurdity of uniforms. Absurd uniforms born of uniformity of thought, of Blackshirts and Brownshirts, of jodhpurs and jackboots, […]
Imagine the body confounding the language of life, while the mind continues to consecrate the Word of God. Imagine the body conflating the words of […]
Not a vacation day, but a display of vocation. A day to safeguard workers and sanctify the nature of work, where the ability to do—the […]