Given the fervency with which today’s Democrat and Republican presidential candidates are campaigning for the White House, one might reasonably believe that the highest office in the land is quite a prize. But before Trump, Sanders, Cruz, or Clinton take the oath of office, they might want to consider what some of their predecessors had
READ MOREFrom Reuters we learn: “Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev raised the specter of an interminable or a world war if powers failed to negotiate an end to the conflict in Syria and warned against any ground operations by U.S. and Arab forces. Medvedev, speaking to Germany’s Handelsblatt newspaper on the eve of talks between major
READ MOREAmong the top news stories today is the historic meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill. It marks the first official meeting between the head of the Roman Catholic Church and a patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church since the Great Schism almost one thousand years ago. For those of you who were taught dates
READ MORELast night I resolved an issue that’s been haunting me for a while: I balanced my checkbook. And let me tell you, it’s a good feeling to get something like that off your chest and know you’re keeping tabs on your bank account! Unfortunately for many young people, the uneasy feeling about their bank account
READ MORENever has the stock market soared higher nor the supply of affordable books been cheaper. Lucky or cursed, let us examine the latter–about which T.S. Eliot asks a great question but falls short in his reply. I confess, I adore them. I thrill to their touch; my heart is aroused by their scent. If old
READ MOREThe days of the library being only for bookworms are long gone. Libraries are branching out (pun intended). And, according to a new piece for The Atlantic, their efforts are making them into community hubs: “There are three areas where libraries function as vibrant centers of America’s towns: technology, education, and community.” The Center for
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