Writings by Topic: Morals, mores, and manners
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Articles |
| Title |
Publication |
Date  |
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| Debating the bottle bill — with myself |
The Boston Globe |
March 29, 2026 |
| The high cost of 'I'm glad he's dead' |
The Boston Globe |
March 25, 2026 |
| No, 'E Pluribus Unum' isn't a lie |
The Boston Globe |
March 11, 2026 |
| When a tyrant dies, decent people rejoice. |
The Boston Globe |
March 4, 2026 |
| Nativism is a bipartisan American temptation |
The Boston Globe |
February 22, 2026 |
| Orchestras aren't what make the West worth defending |
Arguable |
January 27, 2026 |
| The drawing that killed my father's family |
The Boston Globe |
January 25, 2026 |
| The Founding Fathers warned this could happen |
The Boston Globe |
January 21, 2026 |
| From two midwives in Egypt to Martin Luther King |
Arguable |
January 13, 2026 |
| Trump's ego isn't just unpresidential. It's un-Republican. |
The Boston Globe |
December 31, 2025 |
| The potty-mouthing of American life doesn't signal 'authenticity.' It signals decay. |
The Boston Globe |
December 14, 2025 |
| From Mark Twain's Mugwumps to today's Never Trumpers |
Arguable |
December 9, 2025 |
| When two families say 'I do' |
The Boston Globe |
November 30, 2025 |
| The awkward Thanksgiving of O. Henry's 'two gentlemen' |
The Boston Globe |
November 26, 2025 |
| A dirty raid at the Allston Car Wash |
The Boston Globe |
November 19, 2025 |
| The two faces of human stubbornness |
The Boston Globe |
November 16, 2025 |
| How Mamdani's socialist creed will hurt New York City |
The Boston Globe |
November 12, 2025 |
| The 12-foot skeleton next door |
Arguable |
October 28, 2025 |
| To dine beneath Whitey Bulger's gaze |
Arguable |
October 21, 2025 |
| Heads Trump. Tails Trump. |
The Boston Globe |
October 19, 2025 |
| Why won't zombie bad ideas stay buried? |
The Boston Globe |
October 1, 2025 |
| Erika Kirk, Yom Kippur, and the limits of forgiveness |
Arguable |
September 30, 2025 |
| The freedom of limits: A Rosh Hashanah meditation |
The Boston Globe |
September 21, 2025 |
| Don't expect another 'Morning in America' |
The Boston Globe |
September 16, 2025 |
| The rarest political comeback: repentance |
The Boston Globe |
September 10, 2025 |
| Here comes the bridal panhandler |
The Boston Globe |
September 7, 2025 |
| In Canada, 'medical aid in dying' has become a leading cause of death |
The Boston Globe |
September 3, 2025 |
| The convictions that count are the ones that sometimes sting |
The Boston Globe |
August 20, 2025 |
| The night cellphones were banned at TD Garden |
The Boston Globe |
July 30, 2025 |
| Without compromise, American democracy has no future |
The Boston Globe |
July 6, 2025 |
| 'War does not solve problems,' declares the pope. He's wrong. |
The Boston Globe |
June 25, 2025 |
| A litmus test for Jeff Bezos |
Arguable |
March 4, 2025 |
| A harsh immigration crackdown is a strange way to show love |
The Boston Globe |
February 12, 2025 |
| What Trump could learn from Hoover and FDR (and Reagan) |
Arguable |
February 11, 2025 |
| Life is for the living. The names on public buildings shouldn't be. |
The Boston Globe |
January 29, 2025 |
| A woman died in agony as onlookers pressed 'Record' |
The Boston Globe |
January 5, 2025 |
| Merry Christmas! Happy holidays! (Both are fine.) |
The Boston Globe |
December 25, 2024 |
| The missionary in the parking lot |
The Boston Globe |
November 17, 2024 |
| What makes vote-buying wrong? |
The Boston Globe |
November 3, 2024 |
| When Obama was the divider-in-chief |
Arguable |
October 29, 2024 |
| The high cost of letting passengers evade transit fares |
The Boston Globe |
September 1, 2024 |
| Religion is America's mighty engine of charitable goodness |
The Boston Globe |
August 28, 2024 |
| The day Phil Donahue and I kept our clothes on |
Arguable |
August 27, 2024 |
| If you're crushing on a political candidate, you're doing democracy wrong |
The Boston Globe |
August 25, 2024 |
| Adams, Jefferson, Van Buren, H.W. Bush ... and Harris? |
Arguable |
August 20, 2024 |
| Nike celebrates athletics at its worst |
The Boston Globe |
August 7, 2024 |
| Will Trump's near-assassination jolt Americans into cooling their apocalyptic rhetoric? |
The Boston Globe |
July 15, 2024 |
| Joseph Lieberman, mensch |
The Boston Globe/Arguable |
April 3, 2024 |
| The phony feeding frenzies over 'bloodbath' and 'hamstringing' |
The Boston Globe |
March 24, 2024 |
| Seiji Ozawa's love for America |
Arguable |
February 13, 2024 |
| Beware any candidate who values loyalty above all else |
The Boston Globe |
January 10, 2024 |
| The wonderful life of 'It's a Wonderful Life' |
The Boston Globe |
December 24, 2023 |
| From Cuban princeling to imprisoned dissident |
Arguable |
August 8, 2023 |
| Hypocrisy at Middlebury College |
The Boston Globe |
June 18, 2023 |
| Unabomber's death calls to mind a tale of two brothers |
The Boston Globe |
June 14, 2023 |
| Does Generation Z love Big Brother? |
Arguable |
June 13, 2023 |
| Is this how a new Great Awakening begins? |
The Boston Globe |
April 2, 2023 |
| What makes a good citizen? |
The Boston Globe |
November 23, 2022 |
| Before declaring a pandemic amnesty, we need a pandemic mea culpa |
The Boston Globe |
November 20, 2022 |
| The penitential presidents |
Arguable |
October 3, 2022 |
| If you don't vote the way I do, the answer is no |
The Boston Globe |
August 24, 2022 |
| Public life needs more good losers |
The Boston Globe |
August 3, 2022 |
| Informers on campus |
The Boston Globe |
July 13, 2022 |
| I'm right, and you're an evil monster |
The Boston Globe |
June 5, 2022 |
| Netflix and the moose |
Arguable |
March 28, 2022 |
| I expected better of Elizabeth Warren |
Arguable |
December 27, 2021 |
| F-bombing the president |
The Boston Globe |
November 7, 2021 |
| The sins we commit with words |
The Boston Globe |
September 15, 2021 |
| Since 9/11, Americans have embraced their Muslim neighbors |
The Boston Globe |
September 5, 2021 |
| Love across the color line |
The Boston Globe |
August 22, 2021 |
| Online Lottery games would be a bad bet |
The Boston Globe |
June 27, 2021 |
| The Down syndrome bigotry of an Oxford biologist |
Arguable |
June 7, 2021 |
| Welcome to the promised land |
The Boston Globe |
April 28, 2021 |
| Religion in America is fading, but true believers are everywhere |
The Boston Globe |
April 14, 2021 |
| Mark Jacoby, 1925-2021 |
Arguable |
February 8, 2021 |
| The politics of an Auschwitz survivor's son |
The Boston Globe |
January 24, 2021 |
| More than politics divides us, national identity unites us |
The Boston Globe |
January 3, 2021 |
| My JD doesn't make me a doctor. Jill Biden's EdD doesn't make her one, either |
Arguable |
December 14, 2020 |
| Were California voters confused? |
Arguable |
November 9, 2020 |
| Job 1 for the next president: Bind the wounds of a polarized nation |
The Boston Globe |
November 1, 2020 |
| A plea for humility from America's first superstar |
The Boston Globe |
September 13, 2020 |
| The ballpark is no place for the national anthem |
The Boston Globe |
July 31, 2020 |
| Fear of speech is replacing freedom of speech |
The Boston Globe |
July 26, 2020 |
| Indecent cops, indecent rioters |
Arguable |
June 1, 2020 |
| Shavuot Study: This is the Torah the World Needs to Hear |
Sinai Temple, Los Angeles |
May 28, 2020 |
| A tide of contempt is corroding our politics |
The Boston Globe |
December 8, 2019 |
| Missing David Brudnoy |
Arguable |
November 18, 2019 |
| Blessed are the retractors |
The Boston Globe |
October 6, 2019 |
| We've had enough arrogant presidents. We need a humble one |
The Boston Globe |
September 4, 2019 |
| The slaves of 2019 |
Arguable |
August 26, 2019 |
| The day Fox News was on the TV in my gym |
The Boston Globe |
June 26, 2019 |
| A grievous sinner, and a great American |
The Boston Globe |
June 9, 2019 |
| Remembering Ray Shamie |
Arguable |
June 3, 2019 |
| A less religious America will be a less generous America |
The Boston Globe |
January 23, 2019 |
| As MLK foresaw, racism in America has been largely overcome |
The Boston Globe |
January 20, 2019 |
| We gather together to give Thanksgiving its meaning |
The Boston Globe |
November 20, 2018 |
| Three reasons to vote No on Question 3 |
The Boston Globe |
November 4, 2018 |
| Celebrity gossip may entertain, but it makes our whole culture sick |
The Boston Globe |
September 9, 2018 |
| No, 60 million abortions didn't make America richer |
The Boston Globe |
August 22, 2018 |
| If politics worked the way the Food Network works |
The Boston Globe |
June 3, 2018 |
| What's so great about John McCain? |
The Boston Globe |
May 9, 2018 |
| Our @&*!^$^# public discourse |
The Boston Globe |
April 22, 2018 |
| The hack who repented |
The Boston Globe |
February 18, 2018 |
| Abortion politics and the Alabama race |
The Boston Globe |
December 10, 2017 |
| The marvelously 'wild richness of American philanthropy' |
The Boston Globe |
December 1, 2017 |
| Life is annoying. Don't make it worse |
The Boston Globe |
October 29, 2017 |
| Let's stop taking the national anthem out to the ballgame |
The Boston Globe |
September 27, 2017 |
| A nation on the verge of a nervous breakdown |
The Boston Globe |
July 16, 2017 |
| From normalizing Bill Clinton to normalizing Donald Trump |
The Boston Globe |
July 9, 2017 |
| When good things come from bad people |
The Boston Globe |
June 18, 2017 |
| Loving across the color line |
The Boston Globe |
May 24, 2017 |
| A health-care debate to die for |
The Boston Globe |
May 14, 2017 |
| Automatic forgiveness makes the world more dangerous |
The Boston Globe |
April 26, 2017 |
| An Orthodox journalist in the secular media |
Mishpacha |
April 2017 |
| Memo to the next ex-president: Be a Bush, not a Carter |
The Boston Globe |
November 30, 2016 |
| Less Frank Costanza, more Mike Pence |
The Boston Globe |
November 27, 2016 |
| Another campaign ends, and my wishes didn't come true |
The Boston Globe |
November 6, 2016 |
| Dennis Prager doth protest too much |
The Boston Globe |
October 23, 2016 |
| How the religious right embraced Donald Trump and lost its moral authority |
The Boston Globe |
October 16, 2016 |
| In an election about character, Trump and Clinton are beyond the pale |
The Boston Globe |
September 30, 2016 |
| On Election Day, it's OK not to vote. Really. |
The Boston Globe |
September 10, 2016 |
| Last call for Frederick Weller |
The Boston Globe |
July 31, 2016 |
| A hater's guide to Hillary |
The Boston Globe |
July 24, 2016 |
| Cigarettes are hazardous, but some lawmakers are worse |
The Boston Globe |
June 29, 2016 |
| The extraordinary generosity of ordinary Americans |
The Boston Globe |
January 31, 2016 |
| Garrett Swasey's final sermon |
The Boston Globe |
December 6, 2015 |
| Three cheers for cultural appropriation |
The Boston Globe |
December 2, 2015 |
| Playboy covers up — and declares victory |
The Boston Globe |
October 15, 2015 |
| Free your eyes from the shackles of the shutter |
The Boston Globe |
October 4, 2015 |
| Bulger wasn't hardwired to be a murderer. No one is |
The Boston Globe |
September 23, 2015 |
| A Palestinian 'Samaritan' teaches a lesson in humanity |
The Boston Globe |
September 9, 2015 |
| American politics needs more civility, not less |
The Boston Globe |
August 16, 2015 |
| Planned Parenthood videos should appall even pro-choice advocates |
The Boston Globe |
July 22, 2015 |
| The Confederate flag is anti-American |
The Boston Globe |
July 12, 2015 |
| A moral world requires moral violence |
The Boston Globe |
June 25, 2015 |
| Could 'Grover the Good' win the White House today? |
The Boston Globe |
February 15, 2015 |
| The politician, the coach, and the Founding Father |
The Boston Globe |
January 2, 2015 |
| The Jewish state's newest hero wasn't Jewish |
The Boston Globe |
November 23, 2014 |
| We worship our politicians — and we despise them |
The Boston Globe |
November 5, 2014 |
| In politics, patience isn't overrated – but loyalty often is |
The Boston Globe |
October 22, 2014 |
| Dr. Emanuel's death wish |
The Boston Globe |
October 6, 2014 |
| A 'right' to recline? |
The Boston Globe |
September 3, 2014 |
| They're so vain, they probably think this bridge is about them |
The Boston Globe |
August 2, 2014 |
| The rudeness of registries |
The Boston Globe |
June 22, 2014 |
| Sterling's words were vulgar and bigoted, but private |
The Boston Globe |
April 30, 2014 |
| Unity in the death of a colleague |
The Boston Globe |
April 9, 2014 |
| How unborn babies become 'clinical waste' |
The Boston Globe |
March 30, 2014 |
| The radical dream of 'peace on earth' |
The Boston Globe |
December 25, 2013 |
| Another slip down the slope from gay marriage |
The Boston Globe |
December 22, 2013 |
| Faked hate? |
The Boston Globe |
December 11, 2013 |
| 'Tis better to give, but some give more |
The Boston Globe |
December 1, 2013 |
| When the joke was on JFK |
The Boston Globe |
November 20, 2013 |
| Marketplace changes have made ENDA superfluous |
The Boston Globe |
November 17, 2013 |
| Typhoon Haiyan and the old, old problem of evil |
The Boston Globe |
November 13, 2013 |
| Darwin's conundrum: Where does compassion come from? |
The Boston Globe |
September 4, 2013 |
| Don't be so trashy |
The Boston Globe |
July 24, 2013 |
| Political elite should shun Bill Bulger |
The Boston Globe |
June 23, 2013 |
| Is this any way to help the poor? |
The Boston Globe |
June 2, 2013 |
| Boston's commuters could learn something from Tokyo's |
The Boston Globe |
February 10, 2013 |
| People are truly good at heart? Sadly, no |
The Boston Globe |
January 2, 2013 |
| Good laws will never abolish all evil |
The Boston Globe |
December 19, 2012 |
| Voting is a right, not a duty |
The Boston Globe |
October 28, 2012 |
| The moral giant and the leftist creep |
The Boston Globe |
October 14, 2012 |
| Stingy liberals |
The Boston Globe |
August 22, 2012 |
| After the Olympics: Where's the humility? |
The Boston Globe |
August 15, 2012 |
| Public discourse, without the 'hard zinger' |
The Boston Globe |
July 25, 2012 |
| Celebrating, royal-free |
The Boston Globe |
July 4, 2012 |
| The #%@*&! problem |
The Boston Globe |
June 17, 2012 |
| 'The defining issue of our time'? Hardly |
The Boston Globe |
May 6, 2012 |
| What Brown's and Warren's tax returns really show |
The Boston Globe |
May 2, 2012 |
| The gift of giving |
The Boston Globe |
December 28, 2011 |
| Is America past its prime? |
The Boston Globe |
November 16, 2011 |
| Occupiers, Tea Partiers, and the Tenth Commandment |
The Boston Globe |
November 2, 2011 |
| The search for meaning in mortality |
The Boston Globe |
October 5, 2011 |
| When 'inconsequential' means 'better' |
The Boston Globe |
August 21, 2011 |
| Outrage that misses the target |
The Boston Globe |
June 17, 2011 |
| Why are the zealots obsessed with smoking? |
The Boston Globe |
February 13, 2011 |
| Voices of patience and wisdom |
The Boston Globe |
January 16, 2011 |
| Created by God to be good |
The Boston Globe |
November 14, 2010 |
| Lessons of the Koran's non-burning |
The Boston Globe |
September 15, 2010 |
| Musings, random and otherwise |
The Boston Globe |
June 13, 2010 |
| Rand Paul and the right to be odious |
The Boston Globe |
May 26, 2010 |
| 100 million 'missing' girls |
The Boston Globe |
March 14, 2010 |
| The 2000s: A descent into incivility |
The Boston Globe |
December 31, 2009 |
| Obama and 'The Great I Am' |
The Boston Globe |
November 14, 2009 |
| Courage, and the absence of courage |
The Boston Globe |
May 3, 2009 |
| Intelligence is no guarantee of goodness |
The Boston Globe |
March 4, 2009 |
| A permanent case of the swelled head |
The Boston Globe |
December 10, 2008 |
| No ordinary candidate |
The Boston Globe |
December 26, 2007 |
| Learning from a 'church' of hate |
The Boston Globe |
October 31, 2007 |
| Why we fly the flag |
The Boston Globe |
July 8, 2007 |
| Messages to my son |
The Boston Globe |
March 27, 2007 |
| GOP 'family values' |
The Boston Globe |
March 20, 2007 |
| Are women giving up on marriage? |
The Boston Globe |
January 21, 2007 |
| Atheists' bleak alternative |
The Boston Globe |
December 13, 2006 |
| Undeserved forgiveness |
The Boston Globe |
October 8, 2006 |
| Letter to a mensch-in-training |
The Boston Globe |
April 2, 2006 |
| The obligation of unwanted fatherhood |
The Boston Globe |
March 23, 2006 |
| Bringing faith into contempt |
The Boston Globe |
January 8, 2006 |
| De-Christmasing Christmas |
The Boston Globe |
November 30, 2005 |
| My best wishes |
The Boston Globe |
May 22, 2005 |
| Death of a gallant man |
The Boston Globe |
December 12, 2004 |
| The modest giant |
The Boston Globe |
June 10, 2004 |
| Into the sewer |
The Boston Globe |
February 1, 2004 |
| Give the new tunnel a nonpolitical name |
The Boston Globe |
October 26, 2003 |
| Drives, desires, and DNA |
The Boston Globe |
August 17, 2003 |
| Hooked on a cruel sport |
The Boston Globe |
May 11, 2003 |
| Explaining the war to a six-year-old |
The Boston Globe |
April 3, 2003 |
| Diplomats of uncommon courage |
The Boston Globe |
October 20, 2002 |
| Repentance comes first |
The Boston Globe |
September 15, 2002 |
| A screenwriter's remorse |
The Boston Globe |
August 18, 2002 |
| Decency matters most, Caleb |
The Boston Globe |
March 24, 2002 |
| Smears and slanders from the left |
The Boston Globe |
December 30, 2001 |
| The littlest peacemakers |
The Boston Globe |
December 23, 2001 |
| The permissive parents of the 'American Taliban' |
The Boston Globe |
December 13, 2001 |
| Gratitude is the key to happiness |
The Boston Globe |
November 22, 2001 |
| Too good for Oprah |
The Boston Globe |
November 1, 2001 |
| Blindness to evil leads to more evil |
The Boston Globe |
October 21, 2001 |
| Calling evil by its name |
The Boston Globe |
September 16, 2001 |
| A mufti's unending vitriol |
The Boston Globe |
August 23, 2001 |
| The threat from same-sex 'marriage' |
The Boston Globe |
August 6, 2001 |
| Just another nontraditional family |
The Boston Globe |
May 17, 2001 |
| The inhumane society |
The Boston Globe |
April 2, 2001 |
| How Jimmy Carter got his good name back |
The Boston Globe |
February 19, 2001 |
| Good-bye, Bill Clinton, and good riddance |
The Boston Globe |
January 25, 2001 |
| Why were the Pilgrims thankful? |
The Boston Globe |
November 23, 2000 |
| A world full of unsettling messages |
The Boston Globe |
March 20, 2000 |
| The greatest confession in 2,000 years |
The Boston Globe |
March 16, 2000 |
| John McCain: How straight a shooter? |
The Boston Globe |
January 27, 2000 |
| Who says it's wrong to ban gay marriage? |
The Boston Globe |
January 24, 2000 |
| What Jane Swift doesn't understand: It's about ethics |
The Boston Globe |
January 10, 2000 |
| A year of ugly liberal slurs |
The Boston Globe |
December 30, 1999 |
| Who is responsible? |
The Boston Globe |
December 13, 1999 |
| A political attack on fatherhood that masquerades as science |
The Boston Globe |
July 26, 1999 |
| How leftists 'debate' |
The Boston Globe |
May 3, 1999 |
| Where were the adults? |
The Boston Globe |
April 26, 1999 |
| Renounce the racists, Senator Lott |
The Boston Globe |
April 19, 1999 |
| Every word counts, Caleb |
The Boston Globe |
March 11, 1999 |
| The secret of Clinton's popularity |
The Boston Globe |
January 14, 1999 |
| A liberal double standard on hate speech |
The Boston Globe |
December 31, 1998 |
| What kind of kindness? |
The Boston Globe |
September 21, 1998 |
| His moral authority is gone. He should be, too |
The Boston Globe |
September 14, 1998 |
| A presidency of lies |
The Boston Globe |
August 20, 1998 |
| Patriotism and the Fortune 100 |
The Boston Globe |
July 30, 1998 |
| The classroom culture that spawned Kip Kinkel |
The Boston Globe |
May 28, 1998 |
| Bill Clinton will have a great fall |
The Boston Globe |
May 26, 1998 |
| Query for liberals: Should incest be a crime? |
The Boston Globe |
January 27, 1998 |
| The loss of presidential dignity |
The Boston Globe |
January 13, 1998 |
| 'Their blood flowed red, too' |
The Boston Globe |
January 6, 1998 |
| More hate speech from the left |
The Boston Globe |
December 30, 1997 |
| Animal crazy |
The Boston Globe |
December 23, 1997 |
| Charitable Southerners, stingy New Englanders |
The Boston Globe |
December 4, 1997 |
| See how they lie |
The Boston Globe |
November 13, 1997 |
| Pol Pot's clear conscience |
The Boston Globe |
November 4, 1997 |
| Christopher Columbus, hero |
The Boston Globe |
October 9, 1997 |
| The death penalty shouldn't be for cop-killers only |
The Boston Globe |
August 28, 1997 |
| 'Mr. Magoo' brings out the PC police |
The Boston Globe |
August 5, 1997 |
| In defense of 'an eye for an eye' |
The Boston Globe |
June 24, 1997 |
| Rewarding deadbeats |
The Boston Globe |
June 10, 1997 |
| Want to rent an ex-president? Call George Bush |
The Boston Globe |
June 5, 1997 |
| A message to my newborn son |
The Boston Globe |
March 27, 1997 |
| The false gods of popular culture |
The Boston Globe |
December 17, 1996 |
| Lower the flag, South Carolina |
The Boston Globe |
December 3, 1996 |
| Good riddance to a disgraceful speaker |
The Boston Globe |
November 26, 1996 |
| A cardinal's compassion for a killer |
The Boston Globe |
September 24, 1996 |
| The suffering of a mother bird |
The Boston Globe |
September 5, 1996 |
| The founders' formula: faith and liberty |
The Boston Globe |
July 4, 1996 |
| 100 years after Plessy, and we're still counting by race |
The Boston Globe |
April 25, 1996 |
| When murder makes page 1, is the blood any redder? |
The Boston Globe |
October 3, 1995 |
| Lesson for liberals: the riches of a Mississippi washerwoman |
The Boston Globe |
August 29, 1995 |
| Love my auto-nomy |
The Boston Globe |
August 8, 1995 |
| A desensitized society drenched in sleaze |
The Boston Globe |
June 8, 1995 |
| The chaos facing the White House |
The Boston Globe |
May 30, 1995 |
| What does Harvard have against teen killers? |
The Boston Globe |
April 11, 1995 |
| Race doesn't matter |
The Boston Globe |
March 16, 1995 |
| What love is — and isn't |
The Boston Globe |
February 14, 1995 |
| What's morality got to do with it? |
The Boston Globe |
May 24, 1994 |
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Book Reviews |
| Book Title |
Publication |
Date |
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One Nation, Two Cultures
by Gertrude Himmelfarb |
Azure |
Winter 2001 |
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