“I’m a Child of Immigrants. And I Have a Plan to Fix Immigration”

“Neither Democrats nor Republicans will like it. But it would be humane, it would adhere to the rule of law, and it would work.” Sonia Nazario is the author of Enrique’s Journey, is a graduate of Williams College and holds a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She received an…

How the “ruling class” frame their assets to the rest of us.

We’re all familiar now with Mark Zuckerberg’s unceasing and hypocritical paen to the sacred interactions of loyal Face Book users, and how their interactions on his platform will make their lives so much better. Well, I recently came across the following tweet, it’s origin long-lost to repetition, that gives the lie to Zuck’s magnanimity: “‘Community’…

APHORISM

aph·o·rism  [ˈafəˌrizəm] NOUN a pithy observation that contains a general truth, a statement of some general principle, expressed memorably by condensing much wisdom into few words. Examples:  “The child is father to the man.”  (William Wadsworth)   “Power worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue.…

Straying afield from ourselves . . . what could we learn if we would?

Years ago, in the spring of 1989, I was reading a new book I’d just bought  by one of my favorite historians, Peter Brown, Rollins Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University, and scholar of Late Antiquity. I was reading, The Body and Society, Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity, and I’d just begun…