Now that my ladder’s gone

February 8, 2017

In the last few posts I have been exploring the connection between human rights and human dignity. With the fearful erosion …

A Global Tombstone to Hanlon’s Razor

November 26, 2015

In this month of remembering, today is the occasion to commemorate my deceased mother’s birthday; I offer this old photo of forlorn …

November 14, 2015

If Remembrance Day is a time to reflect on the history of war, its many lessons, and the place that …

November 1, 2015

There is a verse in the ancient hymn, O Sacred Head, Now Wounded, that goes, “What language shall I borrow …

September 10, 2015

Fear of Artificial Intelligence is being expressed by those no less impressive than Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates. But popular culture …

August 6, 2015

T.S. Elliot wrote The Circus Animals’ Desertion in what some think was existential angst about the failures of modernity: Those masterful images …

April 1, 2015

In the looming shadow of Good Friday, there is a western silence to the extermination of Christians from Arabia to Yemen. …