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Title Publication Date
Beware any candidate who values loyalty above all else The Boston Globe January 10, 2024
The wonderful life of 'It's a Wonderful Life' The Boston Globe December 24, 2023
From Cuban princeling to imprisoned dissident Arguable August 8, 2023
Hypocrisy at Middlebury College The Boston Globe June 18, 2023
Unabomber's death calls to mind a tale of two brothers The Boston Globe June 14, 2023
Does Generation Z love Big Brother? Arguable June 13, 2023
Is this how a new Great Awakening begins? The Boston Globe April 2, 2023
What makes a good citizen? The Boston Globe November 23, 2022
Before declaring a pandemic amnesty, we need a pandemic mea culpa The Boston Globe November 20, 2022
The penitential presidents Arguable October 3, 2022
If you don't vote the way I do, the answer is no The Boston Globe August 24, 2022
Public life needs more good losers The Boston Globe August 3, 2022
Informers on campus The Boston Globe July 13, 2022
I'm right, and you're an evil monster The Boston Globe June 5, 2022
Netflix and the moose Arguable March 28, 2022
I expected better of Elizabeth Warren Arguable December 27, 2021
F-bombing the president The Boston Globe November 7, 2021
The sins we commit with words The Boston Globe September 15, 2021
Since 9/11, Americans have embraced their Muslim neighbors The Boston Globe September 5, 2021
Love across the color line The Boston Globe August 22, 2021
Online Lottery games would be a bad bet The Boston Globe June 27, 2021
The Down syndrome bigotry of an Oxford biologist Arguable June 7, 2021
Welcome to the promised land The Boston Globe April 28, 2021
Religion in America is fading, but true believers are everywhere The Boston Globe April 14, 2021
Mark Jacoby, 1925-2021 Arguable February 8, 2021
The politics of an Auschwitz survivor's son The Boston Globe January 24, 2021
More than politics divides us, national identity unites us The Boston Globe January 3, 2021
My JD doesn't make me a doctor. Jill Biden's EdD doesn't make her one, either Arguable December 14, 2020
Were California voters confused? Arguable November 9, 2020
Job 1 for the next president: Bind the wounds of a polarized nation The Boston Globe November 1, 2020
A plea for humility from America's first superstar The Boston Globe September 13, 2020
The ballpark is no place for the national anthem The Boston Globe July 31, 2020
Fear of speech is replacing freedom of speech The Boston Globe July 26, 2020
Indecent cops, indecent rioters Arguable June 1, 2020
Shavuot Study: This is the Torah the World Needs to Hear Sinai Temple, Los Angeles May 28, 2020
A tide of contempt is corroding our politics The Boston Globe December 8, 2019
Missing David Brudnoy Arguable November 18, 2019
Blessed are the retractors The Boston Globe October 6, 2019
We've had enough arrogant presidents. We need a humble one The Boston Globe September 4, 2019
The slaves of 2019 Arguable August 26, 2019
The day Fox News was on the TV in my gym The Boston Globe June 26, 2019
A grievous sinner, and a great American The Boston Globe June 9, 2019
Remembering Ray Shamie Arguable June 3, 2019
A less religious America will be a less generous America The Boston Globe January 23, 2019
As MLK foresaw, racism in America has been largely overcome The Boston Globe January 20, 2019
We gather together to give Thanksgiving its meaning The Boston Globe November 20, 2018
Three reasons to vote No on Question 3 The Boston Globe November 4, 2018
Celebrity gossip may entertain, but it makes our whole culture sick The Boston Globe September 9, 2018
No, 60 million abortions didn't make America richer The Boston Globe August 22, 2018
If politics worked the way the Food Network works The Boston Globe June 3, 2018
What's so great about John McCain? The Boston Globe May 9, 2018
Our @&*!^$^# public discourse The Boston Globe April 22, 2018
The hack who repented The Boston Globe February 18, 2018
Abortion politics and the Alabama race The Boston Globe December 10, 2017
The marvelously 'wild richness of American philanthropy' The Boston Globe December 1, 2017
Life is annoying. Don't make it worse The Boston Globe October 29, 2017
Let's stop taking the national anthem out to the ballgame The Boston Globe September 27, 2017
A nation on the verge of a nervous breakdown The Boston Globe July 16, 2017
From normalizing Bill Clinton to normalizing Donald Trump The Boston Globe July 9, 2017
When good things come from bad people The Boston Globe June 18, 2017
Loving across the color line The Boston Globe May 24, 2017
A health-care debate to die for The Boston Globe May 14, 2017
Automatic forgiveness makes the world more dangerous The Boston Globe April 26, 2017
An Orthodox journalist in the secular media Mishpacha April 2017
Memo to the next ex-president: Be a Bush, not a Carter The Boston Globe November 30, 2016
Less Frank Costanza, more Mike Pence The Boston Globe November 27, 2016
Another campaign ends, and my wishes didn't come true The Boston Globe November 6, 2016
Dennis Prager doth protest too much The Boston Globe October 23, 2016
How the religious right embraced Donald Trump and lost its moral authority The Boston Globe October 16, 2016
In an election about character, Trump and Clinton are beyond the pale The Boston Globe September 30, 2016
On Election Day, it's OK not to vote. Really. The Boston Globe September 10, 2016
Last call for Frederick Weller The Boston Globe July 31, 2016
A hater's guide to Hillary The Boston Globe July 24, 2016
Cigarettes are hazardous, but some lawmakers are worse The Boston Globe June 29, 2016
The extraordinary generosity of ordinary Americans The Boston Globe January 31, 2016
Garrett Swasey's final sermon The Boston Globe December 6, 2015
Three cheers for cultural appropriation The Boston Globe December 2, 2015
Playboy covers up — and declares victory The Boston Globe October 15, 2015
Free your eyes from the shackles of the shutter The Boston Globe October 4, 2015
Bulger wasn't hardwired to be a murderer. No one is The Boston Globe September 23, 2015
A Palestinian 'Samaritan' teaches a lesson in humanity The Boston Globe September 9, 2015
American politics needs more civility, not less The Boston Globe August 16, 2015
Planned Parenthood videos should appall even pro-choice advocates The Boston Globe July 22, 2015
The Confederate flag is anti-American The Boston Globe July 12, 2015
A moral world requires moral violence The Boston Globe June 25, 2015
Could 'Grover the Good' win the White House today? The Boston Globe February 15, 2015
The politician, the coach, and the Founding Father The Boston Globe January 2, 2015
The Jewish state's newest hero wasn't Jewish The Boston Globe November 23, 2014
We worship our politicians — and we despise them The Boston Globe November 5, 2014
In politics, patience isn't overrated – but loyalty often is The Boston Globe October 22, 2014
Dr. Emanuel's death wish The Boston Globe October 6, 2014
A 'right' to recline? The Boston Globe September 3, 2014
The rudeness of registries The Boston Globe June 22, 2014
Sterling's words were vulgar and bigoted, but private The Boston Globe April 30, 2014
Unity in the death of a colleague The Boston Globe April 9, 2014
How unborn babies become 'clinical waste' The Boston Globe March 30, 2014
The radical dream of 'peace on earth' The Boston Globe December 25, 2013
Another slip down the slope from gay marriage The Boston Globe December 22, 2013
Faked hate? The Boston Globe December 11, 2013
'Tis better to give, but some give more The Boston Globe December 1, 2013
When the joke was on JFK The Boston Globe November 20, 2013
Marketplace changes have made ENDA superfluous The Boston Globe November 17, 2013
Typhoon Haiyan and the old, old problem of evil The Boston Globe November 13, 2013
Darwin's conundrum: Where does compassion come from? The Boston Globe September 4, 2013
Don't be so trashy The Boston Globe July 24, 2013
Political elite should shun Bill Bulger The Boston Globe June 23, 2013
Is this any way to help the poor? The Boston Globe June 2, 2013
Boston's commuters could learn something from Tokyo's The Boston Globe February 10, 2013
People are truly good at heart? Sadly, no The Boston Globe January 2, 2013
Good laws will never abolish all evil The Boston Globe December 19, 2012
Voting is a right, not a duty The Boston Globe October 28, 2012
The moral giant and the leftist creep The Boston Globe October 14, 2012
Stingy liberals The Boston Globe August 22, 2012
After the Olympics: Where's the humility? The Boston Globe August 15, 2012
Public discourse, without the 'hard zinger' The Boston Globe July 25, 2012
Celebrating, royal-free The Boston Globe July 4, 2012
The #%@*&! problem The Boston Globe June 17, 2012
'The defining issue of our time'? Hardly The Boston Globe May 6, 2012
What Brown's and Warren's tax returns really show The Boston Globe May 2, 2012
The gift of giving The Boston Globe December 28, 2011
Is America past its prime? The Boston Globe November 16, 2011
Occupiers, Tea Partiers, and the Tenth Commandment The Boston Globe November 2, 2011
The search for meaning in mortality The Boston Globe October 5, 2011
When 'inconsequential' means 'better' The Boston Globe August 21, 2011
Outrage that misses the target The Boston Globe June 17, 2011
Why are the zealots obsessed with smoking? The Boston Globe February 13, 2011
Voices of patience and wisdom The Boston Globe January 16, 2011
Created by God to be good The Boston Globe November 14, 2010
Lessons of the Koran's non-burning The Boston Globe September 15, 2010
Musings, random and otherwise The Boston Globe June 13, 2010
Rand Paul and the right to be odious The Boston Globe May 26, 2010
100 million 'missing' girls The Boston Globe March 14, 2010
The 2000s: A descent into incivility The Boston Globe December 31, 2009
Courage, and the absence of courage The Boston Globe May 3, 2009
Intelligence is no guarantee of goodness The Boston Globe March 4, 2009
A permanent case of the swelled head The Boston Globe December 10, 2008
No ordinary candidate The Boston Globe December 26, 2007
Learning from a 'church' of hate The Boston Globe October 31, 2007
Why we fly the flag The Boston Globe July 8, 2007
Messages to my son The Boston Globe March 27, 2007
GOP 'family values' The Boston Globe March 20, 2007
Are women giving up on marriage? The Boston Globe January 21, 2007
Atheists' bleak alternative The Boston Globe December 13, 2006
Undeserved forgiveness The Boston Globe October 8, 2006
Letter to a mensch-in-training The Boston Globe April 2, 2006
The obligation of unwanted fatherhood The Boston Globe March 23, 2006
Bringing faith into contempt The Boston Globe January 8, 2006
De-Christmasing Christmas The Boston Globe November 30, 2005
My best wishes The Boston Globe May 22, 2005
Death of a gallant man The Boston Globe December 12, 2004
The modest giant The Boston Globe June 10, 2004
Into the sewer The Boston Globe February 1, 2004
Give the new tunnel a nonpolitical name The Boston Globe October 26, 2003
Drives, desires, and DNA The Boston Globe August 17, 2003
Hooked on a cruel sport The Boston Globe May 11, 2003
Explaining the war to a six-year-old The Boston Globe April 3, 2003
Diplomats of uncommon courage The Boston Globe October 20, 2002
A screenwriter's remorse The Boston Globe August 18, 2002
Decency matters most, Caleb The Boston Globe March 26, 2002
The permissive parents of the 'American Taliban' The Boston Globe December 13, 2001
The threat from same-sex 'marriage' The Boston Globe August 6, 2001
Just another nontraditional family The Boston Globe May 17, 2001
The inhumane society The Boston Globe April 2, 2001
How Jimmy Carter got his good name back The Boston Globe February 19, 2001
Why were the Pilgrims thankful? The Boston Globe November 23, 2000
A world full of unsettling messages The Boston Globe March 20, 2000
John McCain: How straight a shooter? The Boston Globe January 27, 2000
Who says it's wrong to ban gay marriage? The Boston Globe January 24, 2000
Where were the adults? The Boston Globe April 26, 1999
Renounce the racists, Senator Lott The Boston Globe April 19, 1999
Every word counts, Caleb The Boston Globe March 11, 1999
The secret of Clinton's popularity The Boston Globe January 14, 1999
A liberal double standard on hate speech The Boston Globe December 31, 1998
What kind of kindness? The Boston Globe September 21, 1998
His moral authority is gone. He should be, too The Boston Globe September 14, 1998
A presidency of lies The Boston Globe August 20, 1998
Patriotism and the Fortune 100 The Boston Globe July 30, 1998
The classroom culture that spawned Kip Kinkel The Boston Globe May 28, 1998
Bill Clinton will have a great fall The Boston Globe May 26, 1998
Query for liberals: Should incest be a crime? The Boston Globe January 27, 1998
The loss of presidential dignity The Boston Globe January 13, 1998
'Their blood flowed red, too' The Boston Globe January 6, 1998
More hate speech from the left The Boston Globe December 30, 1997
Animal crazy The Boston Globe December 23, 1997
Charitable Southerners, stingy New Englanders The Boston Globe December 4, 1997
See how they lie The Boston Globe November 13, 1997
Pol Pot's clear conscience The Boston Globe November 4, 1997
Christopher Columbus, hero The Boston Globe October 9, 1997
'Mr. Magoo' brings out the PC police The Boston Globe August 5, 1997
In defense of 'an eye for an eye' The Boston Globe June 24, 1997
Rewarding deadbeats The Boston Globe June 10, 1997
Want to rent an ex-president? Call George Bush The Boston Globe June 5, 1997
A message to my newborn son The Boston Globe March 27, 1997
The false gods of popular culture The Boston Globe December 17, 1996
Lower the flag, South Carolina The Boston Globe December 3, 1996
Good riddance to a disgraceful speaker The Boston Globe November 26, 1996
A cardinal's compassion for a killer The Boston Globe September 24, 1996
The suffering of a mother bird The Boston Globe September 5, 1996
The founders' formula: faith and liberty The Boston Globe July 4, 1996
100 years after Plessy, and we're still counting by race The Boston Globe April 25, 1996
When murder makes page 1, is the blood any redder? The Boston Globe October 3, 1995
Lesson for liberals: the riches of a Mississippi washerwoman The Boston Globe August 29, 1995
Love my auto-nomy The Boston Globe August 8, 1995
A desensitized society drenched in sleaze The Boston Globe June 8, 1995
The chaos facing the White House The Boston Globe May 30, 1995
What does Harvard have against teen killers? The Boston Globe April 11, 1995
Race doesn't matter The Boston Globe March 16, 1995
What love is — and isn't The Boston Globe February 14, 1995
What's morality got to do with it? The Boston Globe May 24, 1994

Book Reviews

Book Title Publication Date
One Nation, Two Cultures
by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Azure Winter 2001

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