Month: May 2011

Are you rapture-ready?

The big news out of Obama’s speech on the Middle East should probably be his announcements about debt forgiveness and foreign investment. But the headlines are all about his commitment to the 1967 borders as the basis for...

I can’t recall the last time I saw a major news story about Iraq on my TV. Oddly enough we still have troops over there. And contractors. Indeed, the security firm DynCorp (i.e., mercenaries, guns for hire, whatever you...

        Garret Fitzgerald (1926-2011), Taoiseach (1981-1987), has died today aged 85.  He was one of the great reforming politicians in Irish political life and played a major role in the transformation...

I have never taken one of Cornel West’s classes or read any of his books. I know him entirely through his frequent appearances on television, where he comes off as extremely funny, insightful in an original way, and maybe...