Address and Q&A given at the University of Sydney from September 2010.Article about Obama accused of being a Muslim, from The American Review, September 2010.An interview about Obama accused of being Muslim on Australian ABC Local Radio from September 2010.The American presidency is a "bully pulpit", as Theodore Roosevelt called it, and many lately have been calling for the current President to make more frequent, higher-profile visits to that pulpit. From The Australian on September 7, 2010.
When President Obama speaks in Ankara, he can send a crucial message to Muslims. Published in the Los Angeles Times on April 4, 2009.
Iraq will enjoy only partial control over its key national asset for another year; no one really knows who will end up with prime access to the world's second- or third-largest oil reserves. Published in the San Francisco Chronicle on January 4, 2009.
The strike by service workers raises questions about administrators' pay. Published in the Los Angeles Times on July 16, 2008.
Panel discussion from the New York Public Library on November 7, 2007.
The war against Hezbollah could leave the Jewish state even more isolated and insecure. Published in the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles on August 4, 2006.
From the National Catholic Reporter, March 18, 2005. [scroll down]
Can US foreign policy. respond to competing. religious rationales? From the Pacific Council on International Policy website. Originally from the Harvard Divinity Bulletin, Autumn 2005. [pdf file]
From the L.A. Times, September 4, 2005. About the proposed Ward Valley nuclear waste disposal dump and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's ties to Southern California Edison and Pacific Gas & Electric.
The Iraqi war will never be worth the lives lost. Originally from the Los Angeles Times on June 29, 2005.
Why Christian ethics demand we treat prisoners as we would the Lord.
The same article as the TomDispatch piece [see this page], translated into Japanese for the TUP-Bulletin.
Recognizing 60,000 Lost Lives: What we owe the Iraqi dead. From the San Francisco Chronicle, published August 3, 2003.
A response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Originally from the Los Angeles Times, September 23, 2001. [scroll down]
Prop. 187 is probably unenforceable, and will strain ethnic and racial relations in the state even more. From The Boston Globe, November 10, 1994. [scroll down]
The Western allies may have to end their neutrality and attempt a Cold War approach against the Serbs. From the L.A. Times, May 31, 1995.
Not to act is to act, or is it?
Is globalization of trade and culture turning the world into a bland boring (American-dominated) monoculture?
The battle for national cultures. Global Crossing, Part II.
Not all wars are religious.
If the academic tills one field and the intellectual is a hunter pursuing prey across many fields, which one is unemployed? From Cross Currents, Fall 1998.
An Englishman takes an alarmed look at a quintessentially American issue. From The Atlantic Monthly, April 1995.
Humans might become extinct sooner than anyone imagines. Think of the prospect as an opportunity for spiritual and artistic growth. From Cross Currents, Fall 2001.
California will cease to be a democratic polity unless it lets its Mexican immigrants vote in local elections. From The Atlantic Monthly, June 1994.
The status of personal letters under the law. From The Los Angeles Times, December 8, 1991. |
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