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Roger Kaplan

Roger Kaplan

Roger Kaplan, a Washington-based writer, covers the Middle East and Africa (and tennis) for The American Spectator.
by | Jan 5, 2021

We heard eleven pipers piping, the eleven faithful apostles. We saw the difficult question of loyalty that apostleship raises. How…

by | Jan 3, 2021

A leader needs apostles. Apostles need a leader they believe in. In Genesis chapter 12, God says to Abraham [paraphrased],”…

by | Jan 3, 2021

Moses urged the Jews to throw off their chains and escape from Egypt. The first stop was a place in…

by | Jan 2, 2021

Tradition and faith count 12 days between the birth of Jesus and the arrival of the Magi, the three kings…

by | Jan 1, 2021

So that is it for 2020, not that the fault lies in the stars, which have a decided impact on…

by | Dec 30, 2020

On the sixth day of Christmas our true love gives us six geese a-laying. Clever academics will connect this to…

by | Dec 29, 2020

Four more days and it will be 2021. Calendars are only ways of keeping track of tennis dates, but still…

by | Dec 28, 2020

If the partridge is the love everlasting of God — in the Catholic doctrine, of Jesus Christ — then on…

by | Dec 27, 2020

The theological banter with Giovanni was not on Christmas Eve but on the day before. Christmas Eve this year in…

by | Dec 23, 2020

Giovanni, a Rose Park tennis pal, sent me a picture of the Trevi fountain in its nocturnal serenity. I shot…

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