Under brutal siege for weeks, Israeli forces raided Kamal  Adwan Hospital, the last functioning hospital in North Gaza, on ...

I walk almost daily up into the Santa Fe National Forest along with neighbors and our dogs, and I am always reminded how ...

Civil discourse is preferable to the alternatives of coerced silence and violence. Coerced silence means that one side has exercised power to end conversation—to say, in effect, there is no point in ...

As a Jew in a Catholic college, one of two Jewish students in my class, I had to take lots of philosophy. My motivation for ...

The progressive regional current, the “Pink Tide,” could be better called “troubled waters” in 2024. The tide had already ...

Life is not possible without an opening to the transcendent; in other words, human beings cannot live in chaos.  Once contact with the transcendent is ...

I’m not a big fan of these “best of” lists, but of all the new(ish) arts entertainment (or edutainment, as KRS-One would say) I consumed these past twelve ...

Major portions of the Arabian Peninsula are already exceeding 2°C above pre-industrial and likely headed for a staggering ...

Mining magnates seem to have it all.  Far more significant than royalty, such figures are the unelected captains of industry ...

What do Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. have in common? They’re all sports superstars, ...

Donald Trump and the Marlboro Man are case studies of branding success. When Philip Morris introduced the cowboy on its ads ...

In these difficult times, the voice of the late Palestinian-American scholar, Edward Said is ever present, “Writing is the ...