I am tired of peace vigils. Too often they function as a fig leaf that covers our sins and our silent compliance.

Last of three parts IN the first part of this series, we established a simple but often neglected truth: a nation cannot be ...

He puts the word “conscience” in quote-marks: The subject then decides, on the basis of his experiences, what he considers tenable in matters of religion, and the subjective “conscience” becomes the ...

THE spiritual essence and the genuine principle of democracy as it exists in the world today can be compared to a healthy tree which has been overgrown by parasites. When at the end of the eighteenth ...

“Celeste, I don’t want you going to Coney Island today. It’s the Fourth of July, and who knows what kind of troublemakers will be there?” My friend Carl and I were planning to spend July 4, 1978, at ...