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Is it news or propaganda, and how do we know?

Is it news or propaganda, and how do we know?

There is a point at which all the heartrending political questions of the day collapse into one. The day the economic issues, the immigration issues, the border wall issues, the...

Is it news or propaganda, and how do we know?

There is a point at which all the heartrending political questions of the day collapse into one. The day the economic issues, the immigration issues, the border wall issues, the...

What are we looking for? Power or leadership?

What are we looking for? Power or leadership?

If anything galvanizes the gurus of serious thinking in the United States, it's the concept of leadership. Business schools live on it; publishers feed it wholesale to the country, book...

What are we looking for? Power or leadership?

If anything galvanizes the gurus of serious thinking in the United States, it's the concept of leadership. Business schools live on it; publishers feed it wholesale to the country, book...

Principles for a pandemic

Principles for a pandemic

"Rules are not necessarily sacred," Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, "principles are." One thing is clear: "Rules" are not getting us out of the largest pandemic in modern history. We're washing...

Principles for a pandemic

"Rules are not necessarily sacred," Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, "principles are." One thing is clear: "Rules" are not getting us out of the largest pandemic in modern history. We're washing...

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. Really?

You shall know the truth and the truth shall ma...

"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable" is a spin on John 8:32, popularized in the 1970s and often misattributed to James A. Garfield,...

You shall know the truth and the truth shall ma...

"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable" is a spin on John 8:32, popularized in the 1970s and often misattributed to James A. Garfield,...

St. Benedict's 12th step is the challenge to become humility itself

St. Benedict's 12th step is the challenge to be...

"The twelfth step of humility is that we always manifest humility in our bearing no less than in our hearts, so that it is evident ... whether sitting walking or...

St. Benedict's 12th step is the challenge to be...

"The twelfth step of humility is that we always manifest humility in our bearing no less than in our hearts, so that it is evident ... whether sitting walking or...

The 11th step: What we say, and how we say it, defines us

The 11th step: What we say, and how we say it, ...

It doesn't seem right to laugh at so wise and solemn a statement as the 11th step of humility. It says that we must "speak gently and without laugher, seriously...

The 11th step: What we say, and how we say it, ...

It doesn't seem right to laugh at so wise and solemn a statement as the 11th step of humility. It says that we must "speak gently and without laugher, seriously...