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American Thanksgiving supposedly celebrated its 401st anniversary last week. In fact, as a national holiday, this was #160. It would help redeem the occasion if
It’s always tough to have to follow up Laura de Jong in this space, especially when she writes a beautiful post like yesterday’s on …
I’m teaching a short course on Vietnam this month as a prelude to the trip I’ll be leading there in November. We’re doing a quick
We can’t let summer 2022 pass without marking the 50th anniversary of Watergate. Or, of “Watergate.” Watergate itself was a Keystone Cops burglary of the
I’ve been thinking about the coup that the Christian Reformed chapter of the Theobros pulled off at the CRC Synod last month, and the musings
Jeff Munroe was rather somber in this space on Monday, and so was Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell yesterday. Both were mourning the demise of nuance and trust
My wife and I are traveling in Turkey with some family who live here. We’re therefore at a distance from the storms surging back home—the
Wars make for gripping video. This past weekend it was dead civilians lying in the street, the open maws of suspected mass graves, and oil
Know anyone who was really excited to greet the new year last night? Me neither. Plenty of us were happy to see 2021 out the
