Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent about abortion often miss the sound of caring.

Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent about abortion often miss the sound of caring.

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.

Civility, it is said, means obeying the unenforceable.

We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.