Friends,  You may have read this story before. I read it for the first time yesterday. I will return to it often. It is too important not t...

It is all too easy to view Trump’s campaign to regain the presidency as  political theatre .    Outlandish.    So exaggerated, so filled wit...

 Reading  The History of the Republic   by Alan Taylor, I’m confronted with the reality that the United States was on the edge of its very e...

    Sinking into the Honey Trap: The Case of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by  Daniel Bar-Tal ,   John Pepper 's review Jul 22, 2023 ...

 Never to forget; always to honor these words of Henri Amiel: "Life is short, and we do not have much time to gladden the hearts of tho...

 We hear its all importance celebrated simply and singularly from two different eras: "Love, and do as you will"--Saint Augustine....

 This from Tolstoy's "War and Peace" “War isn’t courtesy, it’s the vilest thing in the world, and we must understand that and ...