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What bothers me about the reactions to Sy’s refugee picture is the historical amnesia of it. The Emma Lazarus poem on the Statue of Liberty,
The God of Grampa’s living room was dour—though, to be fair, the light that poured in through the picture window—that illuminated the whole scene—had a
Yesterday, I began teaching Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone in an introductory literature course. If you’re expecting Thanksgiving dinner at your house will be war, I told
Calvin probably wouldn’t agree with my assessment of the evil tumor. For Calvin, the providence of God both sent the tumor and provided the surgeon,
The headlines these days tell us that history—and especially the teaching of history—is a major front for the culture wars. In his new book Small
As a matter of survival, I generally stay away from social media mud-slinging contests. However, last June, when someone posted an anti-COVID vaccine link, I
When my daughter came out of her room, teary-eyed, and said she had received a message on social media that disturbed her, my first thought
I remember one thing from the film A Beautiful Mind: the scene where Alicia Nash is about to leave her brilliant but paranoid schizophrenic husband,
Howard Schaap When I was in my early teens, my dad announced rather formally that he would no longer be praying before our family meals.
