×

Opinion

How do you spell love?

Editorials and columns

How do you spell love? You don’t spell it, you feel it. A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the differences. This kind of love is directed towards the good of others even at the cost to oneself. In this world, and in my country, I would like to hug everyone ...

Mike Pence’s important new book about the USA

Editorials and columns

Former Vice President Mike Pence is now promoting his new book, "What Conservatives Believe: Rediscovering the American Conscience." Distinct from most stuff appearing now for the nation's 250th birthday, Pence's book is targeted not at the nation as whole, but at the Republican Party in ...

The perverse genocide charge

Editorials and columns

The spirit of Buchenwald lives on, we are supposed to believe, in the Israeli military operation in Gaza. It's nearly mandatory for progressive Democrats to denounce Israel for its alleged genocide, while Tucker Carlson and Hasan Piker -- radical influencers on the right and left ...

What fathers and faith have in common

Editorials and columns

One of my favorite historical photographs is of John F. Kennedy Jr. playing beneath his father’s desk in the Oval Office. The White House photographer captured the image in 1963 while JFK Jr. was playing beneath the Resolute Desk. This was not a staged photo-op using a child as a prop. The ...

A future so uncertain I’m eating figs

Editorials and columns

I have decided to accept the advice from an Italian card playing game — also known as tarot. And no, I don’t believe I’m delusional for that decision. The cards told me to let go and enjoy the present — pretty standard advice if you ask a rando on the street. Tarot is a divination ...