Counterlight's Peculiars

The BBC this morning is reporting shock over a European Union poll on anti-gay violence across Europe. "A quarter of gay people surve...

Marriage Equality comes to the Land O Lakes . The vote in the Senate today was close, 37 to 30.  The Governor will sign the bill. ...

My picture of the top of the new WTC from Calyer Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn "A skyscraper is a machine that makes the land...

Giotto, Ascension of Chist, from the Arena Chapel, Padua Margaret Watson out on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota gives...

I'm reading Isaiah Berlin's Against the Current , and it is giving me a renewed appreciation for that very messy thinker Mon...

The exact motivations of Boston terrorists remain unknown, but it looks increasingly likely that militant Islamism was involved, that ...

Nicholas Poussin, Pyramus and Thisbe The New York Times yesterday reported on an alarming rise in the suicide rate in the USA.  Su...