For terminal politicos like me last night was a much coveted but rarely experienced moment of real political drama No one knew what was going to happen in yesterday s Iowa caucuses This just doesn t happen in elections any more and it was fun to watch There is more than enough analysis of th

Get ready for the start of the Jesuits 35th General Congregation whose first order or nearly first order of business will be to elect a new superior general of the worldwide Society of Jesus The new General will succeed Peter-Hans Kolvenbach SJ the Dutch Jesuit who has served in the posi

My office neighbor Pat Kossman America s literary editor is super neat A place for everything and everything in its place is my impression of her take on the issue That is not mine at all First-time visitors to my own office tend to look about in dismay at papers and books on every flat

This Slate article on IVF appeared a few weeks ago but is worth revisiting for the ethical questions it raises The author makes the case that fertility doctors should encourage couples struggling to have children to go straight to IVF rather than first trying fertility medication and then art

Cambridge MA -- I am still deciding how to blog and it will take a while to figure out what I can write -- that America readers will find interesting But I am sure that I must write of and from what I know and central to this has to be also my teaching and my scholarly writing I will have am

Hmmmm like Tom Beaudoin I too have never blogged Unlike Tom perhaps and anyone reading this blog I don t typically read blogs I ve perused skimmed is more precise only a handful and generally I ve only done that when a blog entry is embedded in an on-line article To be honest