Of Many Things

From the third-floor corner balcony of the Gran Hotel Ciudad de México, I enjoyed a panoramic view of at least seven centuries of human history. From the ghostly ruins of the Templo Mayor, to the Baroque splendor of the 16th-century cathedral, to the mammoth Palacio National, from which a vast swat

The ‘bathroom wars’ are part and parcel of the cultural warfare we have come to expect.

I am reluctant to throw stones. In fact, I don’t even permit them on my property.

Since the times of Ignatius, the talk about what Jesuit education means—what makes it distinctive, what it demands, what results it strives for—has become more explicit.

Freddie Gray died one year ago. The 25-year-old African-American man had been arrested for possessing what the Baltimore Police Department described as an illegal switchblade. The officers put him in handcuffs, locked him in the back of a police transport van and took him for what The Baltimore Sun

Wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a picture of Senator Kennedy and Cesar Chavez, Mrs. Kennedy joined the Coalition of Immokalee Workers at their protest.