The easiest way to cope with the news is to shrivel it into an us-vs.-them abstraction and, thus, to extract as much humanity from it as possible.
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Robert Koehler is an award-winning, Chicago-based journalist and nationally syndicated writer. Contact him at koehlercw@gmail.com or visit his website at commonwonders.com.
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21 February 2024
Excuse me as I ponder eternity — briefly.
Like it or not, this is the essence of . . . uh, aging. As I wrote a year ago: “. . . once you actually hit...
14 February 2024
For its victims, war is . . . yes, hell. For the rest of us — the onlooking and supportive patriots — war is an abstraction embedded in ignorance, a.k.a.,...
07 February 2024
“Welcome to Dearborn, America’s Jihad Capital . . .”
No, this is not the official “you are now entering Dearborn, Michigan” sign, at the corner of...
31 January 2024
Read the news, hup, two, three, four!
“Top United States officials prodded Israel on Monday to do more to protect civilians in the Gaza Strip . . .”...
24 January 2024
I inhale the big, do-nothing shrug that always follows the annual posting, by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, of its global metaphor for Armageddon...