By • Sep 23,2006

A conversation piece

Conversations with Other Women is one of those movies that are difficult to review. Much of the pleasure of watching the film, which opened this weekend in D.C. and a handful...

By • Sep 18,2006

Pre-law, pre-med, pre-NFL

The high-profile NCAA scholar-athlete is a myth. Not a widely believed myth, but at least an idea to which the NCAA, schools, and athletes pay lip service. The elite athletes...

By • Sep 18,2006

The Pope’s call to reason

I’m getting a feeling of déjà vu over the recent protests in the Muslim community over remarks made by Pope Benedict XVI last Tuesday in Germany. Once again, like with the Danish cartoons a...

By • Sep 18,2006

The games bureaucrats play

When a bureaucrat makes a comment that defies logic, like the following, it may mean something’s up: It is misleading to imply that the commission could be the cause of...

By • Sep 11,2006

An inconvenient enemy of the people

The opening shot in a much anticipated Presidential contest might just have been fired in the strangest of places: Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company. The company is currently running a production...

By • Sep 11,2006

Dear maniacal rubes

Religious faith holds a certain honor in American society. Institutions deemed religious are exempt from taxation. Discrimination based on religious affiliation is prohibited. Long held statutes do not oblige priests...