Every goddamn day: 09/25/26

      Pope Francis' interview with an Italian Jesuit magazine, publicized last Thursday, did not itself change anything. But for many...

     It is easy, correct and perhaps even useful to take a sneering view of the law. Lawyers can be venal and incompetent, prosecutors rut...

     A few years back, my oldest son brought home an armload of Latin books from the library. He was going to teach himself Latin. I gl...

      If man is, in Hannah Arendt's phrase, homo faber— Latin for "man the (tool) maker"—then herons could be referred t...

Hotel Pattee; Perry, Iowa        Walking south on LaSalle Street Wednesday, I reach into my pocket, feel something, pull out a dime. Mus...

     She kept the news until after dinner. An admirable restraint; I would have blabbed it immediately. But I am a blabber in a famil...

A girl plays tether ball at Union Station, August 26, 2013, part of the Active Union Station experiment set up with the Metropolit...