Not long ago, debates about public policy assumed a basic agreement about reality. We argued about solutions, not about what […]
Michael Thomas Leibrandt: Love and table tennis
Like all over America, life was hard around Valentine’s Day of 1934 in Depression-era Philadelphia. And like all aspects of […]
Peter McCusker: Unity comes from inclusion, not subversion
Sports regularly is cited as helping to create a unified America. For instance, we rightly hear that sports excellence is […]
Thom Nickels: It could have been worse
It could have been so much worse. Imagine if Sasha Suda, 45, former president and CEO of the Philadelphia Art […]
Beth Ann Rosica: The tide is turning on transgender ideology
The gender ideology movement affecting countless children and adolescents across the country shows clear signs of fracture. “Gender affirming care” […]
Thom Nickels: Come for the music, stay for the virtue-signaling
The city’s last big Benjamin Franklin Parkway concert was a first-ever New Year’s Eve concert in 2025. Headlined by LL […]
Thom Nickels: Trigger warning!
Several years ago, while attending a lecture at the American Catholic Historical Society, I spoke with a woman who was […]
John Rossi: When Olney was a ‘suburb’
I grew up in the years just after World War II in a pleasant contained place that I call Lower […]
Paul Davis: ‘Longmire’ author Craig Johnson’s Philly connections
I watched and enjoyed the TV crime series Longmire on A&E back in 2012, and I went on to read […]