Loading...
Loading...
Click here if you don’t see subscription options
Arts & CultureBooks
Roger Bergman
"Stand your ground" laws typically expand the historic reach of the “castle doctrine,” the right in English common law to defending one’s own property.
Arts & CultureTelevision
Raymond A. Schroth, S.J.
For nearly 20 years, the United States was severely divided by race, and a generational split not seen since the Civil War.
Arts & CultureBooks
Gregory Hillis
A new introduction could plant seeds in children that will perhaps flower later in life.
Dolores Huerta rallies striking farmworkers and supporters during the California grape boycott. (Courtesy of "Dolores: the movie") 
Arts & CultureFilm
Antonio De Loera-Brust
Huerta’s lack of recognition is certainly not due to a lack of proximity to power; she stood alongside giants of American history.
Padraic Delany as Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms in 1517. (Courtesy of Jake Thomas/PBS)
Arts & CultureTelevision
John Anderson
The two-hour film portrays the "simple monk" Martin Luther as more of a Catholic than he is generally thought to be.
Arts & CulturePoetry
Paul Mariani

 “I really feel I can touch you even in this darkness when I pray.”
    —War correspondent James Foley (1973—2014)
           from his last message to his family

Man Jack the man is, just” Gerard Manley Hopkins

Recovered now enough to scrub the deck,
which turned dun brown with insidious dirt
and cobwebs in the months I twisted, hurt-
ing in yet one more hospital bed, my spine a wreck,