For decades I was the biggest football fan ever. Also baseball. Also basketball. Also ice hockey. My grandfather, Zeyde (of blessed memory), introduced me to baseball when I was five or six. He lived in Brooklyn, hated the Dodgers for abandoning him, a…
Saturday, May 5th this year was the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth in Trier, Germany. On that day in 1818, a philosopher was born whose ideas would soon after prove essential to the historic torment of revolution, international conflicts,…
We are a nation of meddlesome Americans. It was not always thus. There was a time when Americans did not nark on their neighbors. They didn’t inform on their coworkers. They have not, historically, been the comrades in a communist…
What happens when conservatives win the House, the Senate, the majority of governorships and state houses and still lose the cultural war? What happens when Americans sense that there is a contempt for God, marriage, children, morality, free speech, free…
What happens when conservatives win the House, the Senate, the majority of governorships and state houses and still lose the cultural war? What happens when Americans sense that there is a contempt for God, marriage, children, morality, free speech, free…
Passover and Easter coincide which means that most of the nation is slowing down simultaneously and taking time to reflect on themselves, on God, on freedom, on slavery, on sin. Jewish people prepare by cleaning their homes and ridding it…
The realization that the American political climate has of late become hostile, unproductive, and downright horrid is nothing new to anyone. The partisanship and tribalism that exists in our public discourse seems to find strange new ways to isolate and…
The realization that the American political climate has of late become hostile, unproductive, and downright horrid is nothing new to anyone. The partisanship and tribalism that exists in our public discourse seems to find strange new ways to isolate and…
Lizzie Borden likely got away with murdering her dad and step-mom. She used an ax when procuring poison didn’t work. She was acquitted for her crimes, for which there was copious evidence, by a jury of twelve mustachioed men. The…