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Perhaps the clearest expression of a core intent of this column comes from Vimala Thakar, an Indian spiritual teacher and social activist I read about recently who died in 2009.…

President Obama’s short speech to the nation and world about the ISIS/ISIL threat was so chocked full of falsehoods that it almost seems futile to attempt to clarify the issue.…

The more President Obama and other heads of nations talk about preserving the international order, the more you know it is history. The question is: Can existing paradigms and institutions…

There’s a fundamental commonality between Christianity and Islam. Both make virtues out of suffering and sacrifice. These twin philosophical pillars have produced enormous harm in the world throughout the centuries,…

As Aeschylus said in the 5th century BC, “In war, truth is the first casualty.” The new book by Robert M. Gates, “Duty,” which my local Barnes and Noble librarian…

It’s rather hilarious to hear both conservative and liberal politicians and pundits in the United States say that if Congress doesn’t vote to “punish” Assad for using chemical weapons, it…

There’s an old Arab proverb: “I against my brother; I and my brother against my cousin; I and my brother and my cousin against the world.”

Seven Asian young men, dripping wet from just having been in the creek, walk slowly along the narrow path that parallels the stream. I’ve never been to Southeast Asia, but…