Cardinal Raymond Burke may not have used the exact phrase "worse than the pagans," yet that is how the media have headlined their...

Chuaigh mé agus Léna suas Sliabh Washington faoi deireanach. D'fhéadfhai tú a fheiceáil an radharc difriúil ag barr an iarnróid sean ...

Since I posted last time about Jeremy Hammond , the hacker now serving a ten-year Federal sentence for exposing collusion between the gove...

Edward Snowden and Chelsea/ Bradley Manning are names we recognize. Excoriated as traitors, celebrated as patriots, these two whistle...

When I was in college, I showed my dad an op-ed column in the L.A. Times . Our cardinal, Timothy Manning, whom I had shaken hands with an...

After the historic Irish vote, the first where a nation (or 3/4 of one) and not a legislature approved same-sex marriage, Diarmuid Martin,...

Marc Andreesen is a decade younger, a whole lot bigger, and immensely more wealthy than me, but I share one thing in common. Growing up, n...

The recent Pew survey on American religion shows a rapid decline, from around 78% to 70% in Christian identification since 2007. Catholic...

Thiomáint muid go dTailte Dearg go minic. Ach, níl muid imithe go dti ansin a freastail ócáid difriúil ná mar gheall ár mhac síne, Leon. M...

Six weeks ago, I commented in " Free Speech Can Be Scary" about "safe spaces" and the growing inability of certain c...

A former doctoral classmate, a few years ahead of me at our alma mater, now teaches at Emory. He was one of the stars of the English Ph.D...

Italian sculptor Davide Dormino unveiled three of his statues in Berlin's Alexanderplatz.They depict Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, ...

Well, The Nation 's headline isn't as dramatic, but it does summon up the nature of the battle. Defying time, the May 25th issue ...

How many were burned for witchcraft? Feminists in the 1970s asserted in "The Burning Times" that nine million women met this fat...

  With the "clown car" of GOP candidates scrambling against the foregone nominee Hillary Clinton, I received the news that, a...