Like the proverbial New England Spring, March Madness has arrived with its usual severity. During the first two rounds of this annual ode to the almighty dollar that has exactly zero to do with their academic missions, 64 or so large and small institutions of higher learning send their finest…

Although I share my birthplace of Scranton, PA with Joe Biden and the urban activist Jane Jacobs, who successfully thwarted Robert Moses’ plan to build a highway through Washington Square Park, I was barely out of swaddling clothes when my parents whisked me to the magical land of New Jersey…

Recently, I watched the Oscar-nominated film All Quiet on the Western Front, the German language production derived from the classic anti-war novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque. The movie depicts, in all too vivid detail, the horrors of the most senseless war in history, World War I…

We live in a cynical world where so many once revered institutions have proven to be run by individuals who are, let’s face it, just flawed human beings. Politicians lie with impunity, church leaders forgot that they are supposed to serve their followers, not the institutional hierarchy that covers up…

As we enter into the period known as the winter blahs, with the holidays rapidly fading in our memories, millions of pro football fans will settle in front of their TVs to observe the last weekend of the NFL season. A few contests will have important playoff implications, but the…

As we look back on this most tumultuous year, we had a bit of everything: a horrendous, inexplicable war, more and more disastrous climate change events including wildfires and floods, mass shootings and more mass shootings, inflation and looming recession, the tenaciousness of Covid, the collapse of the crypto myth…

In the first visit to the U.S by a significant foreign leader during President Joe Biden’s tenure, he and President Emmanuel Macron of France demonstrated remarkable comity that can without cliche be characterized as a lovefest, despite minor differences in their support of Ukraine and economic competition that should not…

Now that we have had over a week to absorb the results of the midterm elections, what conclusions can we draw? Aside from the obvious, the prospect of a fractious Congress split between the parties, here are the most significant developments of the surprising tallies. The 2020 election is over…

“Violence is as American as cherry pie.” -H. Rap Brown The critical mid-term elections are only a week away, and the prospect of the Republicans taking over at least one, and perhaps both, Houses of Congress is growing, due to three major factors: a first-term president always loses seats due…