The Miracles and Beauty of Nature that Surround Us The chirping of the birds I hear as I write this reminds me of the miraculous diver...

I finished reading an excellent book on Iran by Vali Nasr. Here are some reflections I took away. Particularly since the revolution in ...

Under the Trump Administration--and under Putin's and Netanyahu's--we have seen the deadly recreation of the "law of the jungle...

War dehumanizes every single one of us. ** I respect and am grateful for our armed service members. I am. I am not in agreement with the war...

We Are Losing our Moral Moorings Everywhere I look, I grow more concerned that we as a country and as a world are losing our moral mo...

I wrote this on the eve (one month before).of Russia's invading Ukraine, 4 years ago today. Leaders have failed to identify and implem...

In august, 1939, just prior to Germany's invasion of Poland, the British Ambassador of Poland was heard to lament that Hitler's ris...