Make America again!
The free? Who said the free? Not me? Surely not me? The millions on relief today? The millions shot down when we strike? The…
Violent delights
These violent delights have violent ends. Friar Lawrence in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Concrete acts of loving-kindness
The religious traditions were in unanimous agreement. The one and only test of a valid religious idea, doctrinal statement, spiritual experience, or devotional practice…
Share our pain
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead…
What the poor have to carry
Here is what we seek: a compassion that can stand in awe at what the poor have to carry rather in judgment at how…
Common duties and common interests
Fellow-feeling, sympathy in the broadest sense, is the most important factor in producing a healthy political and social life. Neither our national nor our…
Means of conversion
Play so powerful it can absorb adults, becoming their way of life, may have a meaning that children’s play lacks. While there is an…
Through other eyes
The magic and the danger of fiction is this: it allows us to see through other eyes. It takes us to places we have…