Sometimes, I would love to scream, Stop the world I want to get off. It is moving far too fast for my age and temperament. I have an analog brain in a digital world. My late wife, a farmer’s daughter, had several down on the...
The term “Woke” is often used to refer to “politically liberal or progressive especially in a way that is considered unreasonable or extreme.” That is the definition I mean here. And the magazine I am referring to is the Jesuit magazine America. I...
When drug addict and felon, George Floyd, died at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, thousands of people began marching and rioting in protest against the police and in support of Mr. Floyd. A few years later, thousands of Jews were murdered...
Some things never really change, even though their nomenclature often endures frequent variants like a virus. Some viruses never go away. The most lethal are the moral and intellectual infections that masquerade under many iterations. With apologies...
Over seven years ago, on these pages, I broached the racial issues that were originally raised in Harper Lee’s blockbuster novel, To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960. These contentious issues were put in a differently-colored light in 2015 with the...
Erika López Prater was an adjunct professor of Art History at Hamline University. Her course syllabus included a warning that the art to be discussed contained images of religious figures. She also advised students that if they had any concerns...
No, this essay is not about the prospects of The District of Columbia, Northern California or even Puerto Rico, being added to our flag in order to stack the Senate and House deck with new legislators. I am talking about the constant state of...
