Let’s be clear: freedom of speech is a right, one worth defending regardless of how distasteful that defense might become. That written, can we find the world’s smallest campus (enough room for two desks and two huge egos) and send Larry Summers and Ward Churchill there? In recent days Mr. Summers, president of Harvard, wondered […]

January is the month for presidential oratory. In January 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered both inaugural and State of the Union addresses. America was pulling itself from a decade of economic depression and was sobered by looming war on two oceans. President Roosevelt’s State of the Union address to Congress that year is remembered […]

On August 4, 1914, the Imperial German Army kicked the First World War into high gear by invading Belgium, a neutral nation that posed no threat to Germany. Although this was a violation of international treaty (Germany had pledged to protect Belgium’s neutrality), Kaiser Wilhelm and his generals hoped to convince Belgians that resistance was […]

After eighth grade, I thought I was through with nuns forever, but one can never tell where the ways of life will lead and so on our recent trip to Mexico, Adrienne and I put ourselves voluntarily (albeit apprehensively) into the care of the Benedictine Sisters of Guadalupe. These women – short, brown and radiating […]