President Biden has demanded that Israel unilaterally declare a cease-fire in the Gaza strip, threatening that he would cut off military aid to Israel if Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu doesn’t comply. And he is apparently getting his way. Israeli forces…
One of the most effective methods of manipulation is the age-old technique known as bait and switch. It’s kind of a setup. You offer something that you think the other party might want and after they accept it you then…
George Orwell fought to save language. I was blessed with a ninth-grade English teacher who assigned us not 1984 but Orwell’s essays. He aimed to make us not only good stylists, as Orwell’s instructions and example teaches crispness and clarity,…
I have spent my career in academic science and believe that merit and objectivity are essential guarantors of the scientific enterprise. Boycotts pose the greatest threat. Today, they are being used to target Israel, but, in reality, they are aimed…
Last Good Friday, I visited the chapel of my church, conveniently located on the Florida island where I live. It’s one of only six in the Miami area that houses the living Host for twenty-four hours a day, seven days…
In 1994, our family took its first international trip, going to visit family on both sides who lived in England. We were met at the airport by my wife’s older cousin, Johnny, who was a successful London architect. Much of…
When Pope Francis announced last July that he would create 21 new cardinals, longtime Vatican watcher John L. Allen Jr. immediately noted the significant number of “papabili” — possible papal candidates — on the list. Of these candidates, Allen noted…
Ah, the United Nations is finally reacting to the atrocities of Oct. 7! First, the UN cleaned house. Its United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, which has educated generations of Arab children to hate Jews and Israel, and whose…
Does anyone else recall a U.S. military intervention launched to feed starving civilians that ended with dead American soldiers littering the streets of a distant city? That would be Mogadishu in 1993, where U.S. forces landed to ensure that food…