If war were only “itself” — the violence and horror, the conflagration and death — it would be bad enough, but it’s also an abstraction, a specific language...
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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03 April 2015
“Deeply sensible of their solemn duty to promote the welfare of mankind . . .”
What? Were they serious?
I kneel in a sort of gasping awe as I...
19 March 2015
“I wanna be ready . . .”
And suddenly the glass case shattered. You know the one, perhaps. I’d been agitated by it for the past hour or so, sitting...
14 March 2015
Good and evil leap from the headlines: “Egyptian planes pound ISIS in Libya in revenge for mass beheadings of Christians.”
It’s nonstop action for...
14 March 2015
The president doesn’t “love” America?
Would that it were true. Would that Rudy Giuliani’s five-star Republican nightmare actually paced the Oval...
13 March 2015
“You can hang him from a tree, but he can never sign with me . . .”
Yeah, something had to happen. The...