On the eve of yet another new year, leering ahead into 2012 is an unsettling exercise, at best, while the less anxious process of looking backward to 2011 and the years, the greater or lesser of

It is sad to learn that apparently Christiane Amanpour is simply too intelligent, truth-seeking and even-handed to survive any longer as the anchor of ABC-TV’s prime Sunday morning political

The unprecedented claim I make in this series – that gay identity is best associated with the ancient Greek myth of Prometheus, a “third way” distinct from the dual options of

Noting, as I did in this column last week, that President Teddy Roosevelt threatened to outlaw football after the carnage players suffered in the 1905 season, a friend who was a starting receiver

It is fair to ask, in response to my proposition that the gay Promethean archetype represents “constructive non-conformity,” who defines “constructive.” Does it come from

I’ve been eager to write on this subject for months. I chose to delay it until after the season ended for my local high school because I didn’t want it to be unduly disruptive. However,