Let us start with a quick quiz: 1. Which literary character falls “down the rabbit hole”? 2. When seven paintings were stolen recently from a Rotterdam museum, taken to Romania and possibly burned, did you care? 3. Not long ago a news story on National Public Radio announced that a long-

Black handsome bursting with muscle power and dignity His well-brushed coat shone At 17 hands he was the tallest horse in the 52nd nbsp Street stable where he and his companions were being ritually harnessed up around 9 a m for the day rsquo s work ahead Except for the few inevitable clumps

The public remains largely unaware of the full story of the nation’s interrogation practices.

Why can’t war photography teach us that the spread of this cruelty will corrupt us all?

As mid-semester approaches a number of articles have dealt with the scandals shame and occasional successes in American education Start with football Sports Illustrated 9 15 opened a series called ldquo The Money rdquo by George Dohrman and Thayer Evans documenting the corruption in big col

Twenty years ago, traveling in Syria and Jordan with a faculty group, separated from my comrades, I wandered alone through the Palestinian refugee camp in Baga. Till then my concept of a “camp” was tents—scouts on an overnight trip, troops on bivouac—but this was a permanent

Diana Nyad rsquo s triumphant 110-miles in 53 hours swim from Cuba to Key West a week ago has moved from a warm-glow of shared sunshine to what I like to call a ldquo give-it-a-week rdquo possible non-event A ldquo give-it-a-week rdquo happening is one that gets instant sensational and uncritic

Last week following a year of disgust with the local tabloids The New York Daily News and The New York Post I sat down to write a short essay on how their sick preoccupation with sex and violence has disgraced the American journalistic tradition Originally tabloids and sensationalism were legit

A new book examines changes in Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Jesuit provincial to pope.

Very slowly the American public is moving away from the death penalty A recent Gallup Poll puts its acceptance at 63 percent down from 80 percent in 1994 Unfortunately according to a survey by the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies at the Catholic University of America Catholic