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by Christine Flowers on April 29, 2024 John F. Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for his book "Profiles In Courage," a series of essays that focused on...
John F. Kennedy won the Pulitzer Prize for his book “Profiles In Courage,” a series of essays that focused on eight senators throughout U.S....
Gloria Steinem turned 90 years old last month. She is the oldest living feminist from an era when this was a sign of being a “serious woman.” The...
I was born in Baltimore at the end of 1961. I was only in Charm City for the first months of my life, and was younger than a toddler when my mom and...
The other night, I took a friend out for her birthday at an upscale French restaurant. The food is magnificent, as authentic as anything I tasted when...
A few years ago, a bunch of people tried to erase the memory of Christopher Columbus. Actually, that’s not entirely true. What they really wanted to...
In 1978, I took the first of four driving exams. I failed them all. I’ll spare you the details, but suffice it to say that you cannot convince a Pa....
When Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro engaged in a legal battle with the Little Sisters of the Poor over their refusal to subsidize birth control for...
I try and avoid writing about Donald Trump, even though I voted for him twice. But sometimes you cannot avoid the elephant in the room, literally. As...
Last week the country marked another Valentine’s Day, a reminder I haven’t had a traditional “Valentine” since my fiancée and I broke up in...
I was looking for something to watch the other night, so I practically screamed “Free Movies!” into my remote, and up popped a suggestion I’d...
When you poke a hornet’s nest, you expect to get stung. If that hornet’s nest is filled with young girls in spangles and tutus — and their...
Schadenfreude is a fabulous word. It means deriving happiness from the pain of others or in literal terms, “joy from damage.” And it’s what I...
The other day, I was walking through the bookstore and ended up in the sports section. Perusing the football biographies but deftly avoiding anything...
There are two things that should be completely off limits: a person’s children and a person’s grief. You do not mock a child, something that we...
I’ve been watching with some interest the backlash to Harvard University President Claudine Gay’s resignation. If you were to believe the media...
Regular readers weren’t surprised when I voted against John Fetterman in last year’s Senate race in Pennsylvania. I spent months, and ink,...
Around this time of year, I start seeing posts on social media about how Jesus was a refugee, an asylum seeker, an immigrant, etc. It’s based upon a...
I hated the MeToo movement. It angered me that women who had waited decades to accuse Bill Cosby of rape were believed as if they were the Oracles of...
On March 13, 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected by the College of Cardinals to succeed Jozef Ratzinger as pope. Pope Francis was the...
I wrote this column in view of the Arno River, celebrated in operas, paintings and literature. My ears were filled with the tones of my ancestors’...
About six years ago, there was a little boy named Charlie Gard. Charlie lived in England, and had two loving parents who begged the country’s...
In the wake of the off-year elections across the country last week, it became very clear that abortion was the single most important issue that...
By Christine Flowers In the wake of the off-year elections across the country last week, it became very clear that abortion was the single most...
Initially I said to myself, this is not my battle. But then I watched, in horror, as people marched through the streets of Philadelphia chanting the...
By Christine Flowers When I was a teenager, my father belonged to Philadelphia's Union League. Back then, in the late 1970s, women were excluded from...
When I was a teenager, my father belonged to Philadelphia’s Union League. Back then, in the late 1970s, women were excluded from the membership...
There is something in asylum law called the “material support to terrorist” bar, which essentially states that if you have given significant...
When I learned that Josh Kruger had been murdered in Philadelphia recently, I felt the same sense of shock that most people experienced at hearing the...
By Christine Flowers When I learned that Josh Kruger had been murdered in Philadelphia last week week, I felt the same sense of shock that most people...
John F. Kennedy’s book “Profiles in Courage” told the story of a rare, few U.S. senators who went against the tide of popular opinion and...
When my father proudly mentioned to one of his colleagues that his firstborn child had just been accepted to Bryn Mawr College, he responded:...
The last time that I wrote anything about the Proud Boys, I got into some hot water. There was a young man from the Bon Air Fire Department in...