Syria

In the summer of 2002, Brent Scowcroft published an opinion piece in the Wall Street...

Last night in a Facebook PM session, my friend Mohammed told me that he recently...

In Mesa, Arizona, three days after al-Qaeda destroyed the World Trade Center, an armed man...

Being Jewish isn’t always a picnic. I got my first inkling of this when I...

What irks me most about the guy is his grin, which is roguish, the mark...

It's impossible to guess how many people have seen the photo of Aylan Kurdi, the...

A couple of my readers reminded me that yesterday was the feast day of St....

Sometimes you run across a real-life event that echoes the Gospel almost too loudly to...

This past Saturday on Facebook, a friend of mine posted an e-mail forwarded her from...

The careful reader will note something forlorn in the words “Pope Francis presided over the...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece titled “Heaven in the Jungle” about...

It happens all the time in Jordan: You’re cruising on some road, gazing up at...

The day after IS terrorists beheaded 21 Coptic Christians on a Libyan beach, all of...

Don’t tell anyone I’m writing. I’m supposed to be beavering away on a new curriculum...

I'm still hoping that Pope Francis' election won't serve as the starting gun in a...