Dr. George Dennis O’Brien agrees with the American Catholic bishops that abortion is an intrinsic evil but, after that, there is little agreement on this issue: “While it sounds harsh, abortion is an intrinsic evil, though one that... Read More

In "Hopes and Prospects", Noam Chomsky’s gritty, politically charged essays redefine the nature and practice of democracy in an increasingly unsteady world climate. Chomsky reinterprets the long held ideal that “expansion is the path... Read More

A teenage boy, on a journey to find the brother who left him in the care of their grandfather years ago, is given a mysterious book to read. In it, a “skinny boy,” not unlike himself, offers words of wisdom that explain, in a series... Read More

Reeves Gilmore’s memoir "Adventures of a (Mostly) First Class Guy" is a sassy account of a man’s life. The voice in this memoir is unique and fresh: this book is pure fun. This memoir structured around the places he has been... Read More

Here is E.L. Alban’s paean for the complexity and richness of words those “filigrees of language …. like seedlings on the furrows of a field / that blossom into gardens / on the expanses of the soul.” Alban presents twenty-one... Read More

The horse-centered economy created a vast market for…such handicraft industries as…the construction of wagons carriages buggies and sleighs…beautifully functional with a different kind of wood for each part. — Samuel Eliot... Read More

Kate Franks Klaus arrived home at one o’clock on a November Saturday afternoon following a morning spent shopping at an art fair. One minute she was showing her husband the pottery bowls she’d bought, and then next minute she was... Read More

In Geauga County, Ohio, cows do indeed learn Dutch. So do horses and dogs and pigs. In this Amish settlement, the fourth largest in the U.S. and Canada, more than 1,800 households speak Pennsylvania Dutch, at home and on the farm. The... Read More