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April 2025

April 06, 2025
First, the background: In Illinois, the city of Chicago has long been dominated by Democrats,...

March 2025

March 31, 2025
Why am I writing about mobile phones?  Bear with me . . . First, the...
March 22, 2025
Going on three years ago, in an interview on June 20, 2022, Pope Francis in...

February 2025

February 28, 2025
For various reasons, I've been thinking more about local issues than national politics these days...
February 23, 2025
The state of Illinois has, at present, a very unregulated approach to homeschooling: you want...

January 2025

January 19, 2025
So on Friday, President Joe Biden declared that the Equal Rights Amendment is henceforth adopted,...
January 05, 2025
From 2014 to 2015, the Archdiocese of Chicago ran a capital campaign called To Teach...
January 05, 2025
Yes, I just finished Marty Makary's new book, the topic of which is clear from...

December 2024

December 22, 2024
Who was Ray Bradbury? According to Wikipedia, he was born in 1920, spent most of...
December 22, 2024
Quick update:  At the moment, I am no longer writing at Forbes, because, for the...

November 2024

November 30, 2024
Why has the birth rate cratered in the "developed world" including, quite recently, the United...
November 29, 2024
What, you may ask, is a chicken shredder?  And why do I have a photograph...

October 2024

October 31, 2024
Some time ago, I wrote a number of blog posts about the troubles that boys...
October 29, 2024
No, I am not going to rant about Trump, and I'm not going to rant...

September 2024

September 30, 2024
First, some pictures: At Badlands National Park, at sunrise: Buffalo at sunrise (own work) and...
September 30, 2024
IQ tests are designed to measure raw intelligence, irrespective of educational level or age. Hypothetically,...

August 2024

August 31, 2024
Two weeks ago, Chicago's Cardinal Cupich gave the opening prayer at the Democratic National Convention. ...
August 25, 2024
"Housing shortage" is a term that conventionally pops up with reference to historical events such...

July 2024

July 31, 2024
By now everyone has read about the controversial Olympic Opening Ceremony scene last week, so...
July 30, 2024
So JD Vance's criticism of childless women, or crazy cat ladies, went viral over the...

June 2024

June 16, 2024
A term I just coined, of course. But the Catholic Church has, for millennia, in...
June 16, 2024
Dad has passed. Mom has dementia.  At this point it is severe enough that she...

May 2024

May 22, 2024
More stellar reporting from the Tribune:  in a photo spread about a multicultural event, students...
May 22, 2024
Yes, I still subscribe to the Chicago Tribune, though I switched to the digital only...

April 2024

April 28, 2024
Tim Carney has a new book out, Family Unfriendly, with, as usual for books these...
April 28, 2024
So, as it happens, 15 years ago, a transgender activist declared March 31st to be...

March 2024

March 11, 2024
So it's Sunday night and I just clicked "publish" on a post I'd been working...
March 10, 2024
Over and over again, the Pope says things which make "traditional"/ "orthodox"/ "conservative" Catholics want...

February 2024

February 18, 2024
What is "No Labels"? No Labels is an entity which may - or may not...
February 10, 2024
You've seen the quote: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can...
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