Stop Your Lyin’!
I’ve been thinking a lot about anger lately — righteous anger; spilling-over-the-top you are such total crud anger; you don’t deserve to be called a…
political discourse
Catholics and the Culture of Hate
The uproar over Notre Dame’s honoring President Obama in late May exposed the fissures within American Catholicism that will no doubt be on display following…
Faithful Departed—William F. Buckley Jr.
As I write about William F. Buckley, I can’t help thinking of my dad. They were alike in many ways, and my father introduced me,…
Faithful Departed—Tim Russert
A young political operative who charmed a beautiful woman to marry him for his intellect despite his dough-boy appearance, Tim Russert ended up hitting it…
Love and Politics
 I knew a local cartoonist out in California named Paige Andersen, who one year near Election Day rendered drawings of improbable right-wing and left-wing extremists.…
