was quite content...to let everything about me go on, unquestioned, like a great machine – that was its habit and mine - to ...

Water is a frequent image in Bach’s music. Placid rivers sing the praises of enlightened monarchs. Other streams rush by, murmuring their eternal truths ...

"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone." (Thomas Hobbes)  Eighteen months of genocidal ...

Significant numbers in the Black community feel betrayed by our so-called allies who ignored the warnings of Black people ...

Pope Francis released his encyclical on the fate of the Earth, I was struggling to climb a near vertical cliff on the ...

This is the seventeeth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

I've often mocked the hyperbole trafficked by the Trump alarmists in the mainstream media, but even I can't deny that the ...

Eighty years have passed since April 1945, when the surviving inmates of the Croatian Nazi camp—Jasenovac—rose in revolt, ...

With America’s constitution undergoing a stress test, it’s important to revisit and understand its fundamental structure and ...

The term “economy” is often used as a catch-all, but the way it’s discussed by politicians and pundits is typically ...

Fourteen U.S. workers, on average, died at work daily in 2023, according to the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH).

Racial and social justice remains a cornerstone of liberal philosophy and activism. As we live through another terrifying ...