Marilynne Robinson's 'Home,' reviewed

John LaFarge: a famous pioneer in the field of interracial justice and an editor of America for 37 years.

What I learned playing ultimate frisbee

This essay from the Chronicle of Higher Education by Mark Bauerlein is more evidence for what I already suspected reading on a computer screen makes me stupid nbsp Or more exactly trying to read dense extended arguments on a computer screen results in an entirely different kind of comprehensio

Richard H. Tierney and America's foray into politics

In California, earthquakes are a subject of humor and nostalgia as much as terror

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A review of Ron Hansen's novel about Gerard Manley Hopkins

Sad news from Washington today Tim Russert host of NBC s Meet the Press died of a heart attack at 58 The CNN Report is here Despite an acerbic style in interviews and aggressive personality Russert has been one of political television s class acts over the past two decades He was als

When I lived at Ciszek Hall the Jesuit house of First Studies near Fordham University in the Bronx the residents ranged in age from 23 a first-year scholastic to 83 our house father Despite the six decades that separated the two both had studied philosophy under the same Jesuit Norrie Clark