Referring to the former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as “Bob Provost” reflects my Midwestern roots, which Pope Leo XIV (or “Pope Leo” amo...

I submit that in virtually every political party, a distinction can be made between the “rank and file” and the political elite. Kamala Harr...

Even as the federal president of the U.S., Donald Trump, campaigned in 2024 in part on Canada becoming a member of the U.S., statehood in th...

Mohan Vilas, a Hindu monk at Govardha Ecovillage, spoke at Harvard’s Bhakti Yoga Conference in 2025. He had gone from the world of financial...

Competition within a pollical party and recognition that a political party is indeed a political party are essential or at least advantageou...

With Russia still in Ukraine in 2025, the E.U. faced pressure to enact more laws and regulations at the federal, yes, federal level to reap ...

No one in one’s right mind would claim to be a scholar of chemistry after just three years of courses even if all of them were in natural sc...

Sitting hunched forward, facing an also-hunched-forward and very intense President Zelensky of Ukraine, both men’s unadorned chairs being su...

Ethical, theological, and political issues are salient in the film,  Mickey 17   (2025), which is about Mickey Barnes, a character who is re...

The uniqueness of the film, From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza (2024), goes well beyond it being a documentary that includes an animated s...

At first glance, the impotence of the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice once an order has been willfully i...

Study of scripture and worshipful devotion to a deity are germane to religion, but so too is transcendence, which I submit transcends learni...

In 2025 at Harvard, Madeline Levy presented her dissertation in progress in a graduate-student research workshop, which I was privileged to ...

With all the economic and political turmoil from the anticipated American tariffs, it may be tempting, especially for financially-oriented C...

Malcolm X (né Malcolm Little) visited the West Bank and Gaza during his lifetime, including many refugee camps, a hospital, and a mosque. He...