Accepting the Best Actor Academy Award for his role as Robert Oppenheimer, Cillian Murphy dedicated his Oscar to "the peacemakers" in our post-atomic bomb world.
That struck a chord close to home. My mother wrote the book on women peacemakers.
An Austrian aristocratic novelist. A Guatemalan ...
I have a critter problem.
The specific variety of critter that's troubling me? I don't know.
I know only its aftereffects, the holes bitten in our trash cans and the smallish, slightly oblong droppings the villain leaves behind.
It's tough to identify the culprit because our backyard is a ...
The United Nations has long been so uniformly corrupt on the subject of Israel that anytime it ekes out an acknowledgement of attacks on the Jewish state — however reluctantly, belatedly and perfunctorily it does so — it's a man-bite-dog story. Last week, a U.N. official who had clearly ...
The Democrats and Republicans have, together, decided to subject the American public to a rerun of the 2020 presidential election. This may be an exceedingly low turnout election, as most Americans, outside the bases of the two parties, have no desire to vote for either Joe Biden or Donald ...
The headlines coming out of the Super Tuesday primaries have got it right. Barring cataclysmic changes, Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be the Republican and Democratic nominees for president in 2024.
With Nikki Haley's withdrawal, there will be no more significantly contested primaries or ...
"If all mankind minus one were of one opinion,
Mankind would be no more justified
In silencing that one person,
Than he, if he had the power,
Would be justified in silencing mankind."
— John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
The world is filled with self-evident truths — truisms — that ...