Even the international condemnation of the Israeli devastation of Gaza often feels tepid.
Consider, for instance, the words of U.N. Secretary General...
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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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27 March 2024
I call it “naked insanity,” as in: the emperor has no clothes.
He has no sane and transcendent values, no wisdom — not when it comes to survival....
20 March 2024
Probably fewer ideas are treated with more contempt in today’s world than . . . ahem: a one-state solution for Palestine and Israel, with, good God, every...
13 March 2024
Oh Lord, kumbaya . . .
As I absorb the daily news of war and global devastation, I sing these words to myself — quietly, yes, secretly, lest I ignite...
06 March 2024
First you call them terrorists. Then you say you’re defending yourself. Moral problem solved!
You can kill as many of them as you want.
Well,...
28 February 2024
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.
I’m...