I walk almost daily up into the Santa Fe National Forest along with neighbors and our dogs, and I am always reminded how ...

As a Jew in a Catholic college, one of two Jewish students in my class, I had to take lots of philosophy. My motivation for ...

Civil discourse is preferable to the alternatives of coerced silence and violence. Coerced silence means that one side has exercised power to end conversation—to say, in effect, there is no point in ...

What do Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. have in common? They’re all sports superstars, ...

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Major portions of the Arabian Peninsula are already exceeding 2°C above pre-industrial and likely headed for a staggering ...

Donald Trump and the Marlboro Man are case studies of branding success. When Philip Morris introduced the cowboy on its ads ...

Life is not possible without an opening to the transcendent; in other words, human beings cannot live in chaos.  Once contact with the transcendent is ...

Mining magnates seem to have it all.  Far more significant than royalty, such figures are the unelected captains of industry ...

Does Uhuru, ‘freedom’ in Swahili, apply in the United States? It depends. It depends on how the First Amendment is interpreted; it depends on how cunningly the term terrorism is applied in these ...

I've been closely following the labyrinthine chaos in the Levant for most of my adult life now and I honestly didn't see this ...

Dig, ponder, dig some more. A year ago I wrote a column about some of the early moments of my growing up – not just memories ...