One of the more depressing aspects of BP s petro-pocalypse in the Gulf of Mexico has been the readiness even eagerness of many to turn this national catastrophe into just another opportunity for hyperventilating nbsp partisanship You would think that this moment of crisis could have been a chance

A delightful essay by David Dudley in the New York Times ldquo The Mercury Class rdquo garnered my curiosity About a particular series of cars it pointed to the realm of the mind and the spirit at least in my thoughts Dudley writes about his father rsquo s strivings to become a full professo

ldquo All charges dismissed rdquo said the judge this past June 1st when Dan Berrigan and his co-defendants appeared in a Manhattan court to respond nbsp to charges of disorderly conduct on Good Friday The charges stemmed from Dan rsquo s and others with him a dozen in all attempting to diss

The new President of the Catholic University of America was introduced to the university community at a well attended gathering on campus yesterday Professor John Garvey previously the Dean of the Law School at Boston College will take up his duties at the 15th President of CUA later this summer

Today nearly four decades after the terrible events on Bloody Sunday in Derry Ulster the British government has finally come clean somewhat The Saville report 12 years and pound 190m in the making acknowledges what had been pretty much self-evident to most of the world outside of Great Brita

Katrin Bennhold recently wrote a tantalizing snapshot in the New York Times of Sweden s success in encouraging fathers to take leave from work to care for children In the process it seems masculinity itself undergoes revision Sweden is not alone in paying men to take time off to be with their yo