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Every year, “Flat-Earth” fanatics from around the world gather to celebrate and discuss the “non-spherical nature of the Earth.” For this bizarre coterie of Biblical […]

January 12, 2005

Maybe I’m a callous wretch. After all, it was the great Sir Winston Churchill who once said, “Show me a young conservative and I’ll show […]

December 1, 2004

Politics or religion makes for impolite discussion — or so my mother once told me. Apparently, no more. With one week until Election Day, the […]

October 26, 2004

Despite problems with subject-verb agreement and a longing to give “some wood” to moderator Charlie Gibson, George Bush came out for Friday’s debate prepared, relaxed […]

October 11, 2004

Faced with the realities of an ongoing genocide in Darfur, some unlikely bedfellows have found themselves together: once-vociferous war protestors, disillusioned hawks, and cowed politicians […]

September 9, 2004

If there were anything anti-Semitic about “The Passion of the Christ,” I must have missed it. Perhaps my wincing at the sight of flying pieces […]

February 27, 2004

The enthusiasm generated by the Democratic primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire is a testament to our nation’s commitment to democracy, yet the epic battles […]

January 30, 2004

Between writing final papers, studying for exams, and nursing the mid-reading week hangover, most on-campus extracurricular events during the last two weeks of the semester […]

January 12, 2004

Democracy is the inevitable outcome of historical progress, not merely for the Western, modern and secular world, but for every nation. In his speech here […]

November 19, 2003

It’s been a bad week in Iraq: Monday brought the news of a rocket attack on Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz’s hotel; Tuesday, 35 killed, […]

October 31, 2003

We live at a time in America where racial, ethnic and religious sensitivities run high. Mel Gibson’s upcoming movie, “The Passion,” is a case in […]

October 13, 2003