By Frank Bruni: …there is and always has been disagreement about the very mission of higher education. Should it grapple with the world as it is or point the way to the world as it should be? The article goes … Continue reading →
It has become extremely common for people running for election (or newly-appointed to a political post) to be accused at the eleventh hour of sexual offenses. The accusation may take place at the eleventh hour, but the time of the … Continue reading →
…the proliferation of comments all around the right side of the blogosphere that blame the GOPe for the accusations against Roy Moore? This is in the vein of the sort of thing I’ve written about for years: the Republican civil … Continue reading →
I missed this news when it happened, about a month ago: A nuclear disarmament group has won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize for its decade-long campaign to rid the world of the atomic bomb. As nuclear-fuelled crises swirl over North … Continue reading →
Reports are that’s he’s threatening just that: According to AP, Moore told his supporters in Huntsville, Alabama on Sunday that the WaPo story was “fake news” and “a desperate attempt to stop my political campaign.” Moore added that the newspaper … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →Churchill became Prime Minister during an extraordinarily difficult crisis early in World War II. This was his mindset: I was conscious of a profound sense of relief. Relief? Most people would be terrified and/or despairing. Hitler was engaged in swiftly … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Boy, I seem to be in a legal mood today. See previous post.] I hear a lot of people saying that the 14-year-old accuser of Roy Moore must be telling the truth because her mother backs up her story, … Continue reading →
Commenter “Gospace” writes: [Moore] took ”No” for an answer. That’s the takeaway. No rape, no assault, he understands the meaning of ”No”. But that’s irrelevant where an underage person is concerned. That’s what the word “consent” in the phrase “age … Continue reading →
Is this meaningful, or just more blah-blah-blah? But it sounds encouraging, anyway: The leaders of South Korea and China on Saturday agreed on the need to manage the security situation on the Korean peninsula in a stable way and to … Continue reading →
The accusations against Alabama’s Republican candidate Roy Moore are the talk of the day. First let me get this out of the way: I’m not a Roy Moore fan and never have been. But this story is particularly disturbing to … Continue reading →
What state of mind allows a person to purposely target babies for killing, up close and personal? I ask the question because of reports that the Texas church attacker did exactly that: The gunman who killed 26 people at a … Continue reading →