“If you had to pick a moment when it all began to rot,” says Michael Scott, whose father is the subject of this page-turning nonfiction thriller about the CIA in the fifties and sixties, “it might be Guatemala in 1954.”... Read More

Commuting as spiritual practice may not be the easiest path to enlightenment as it presents so many opportunities for frustration, irritation, and even rage to erupt. Marking off his own daily commute on the Major Deegan Expressway in... Read More

One dark and fateful night in 1886, eight-year-old Maelle Gallagher’s world changed forever. After a tenement fire claims the lives of her Irish-immigrant parents, and she and her siblings, Mattie and Molly, are sent west for adoption... Read More

Psychoanalyst and Auschwitz survivor Viktor Frankl described human existence as a search for meaning. He noted that in the absence of meaning, man becomes susceptible to despair, a condition inimical to life. Through words, human beings... Read More

Perhaps God could create the world in His image in only six days; it took slightly longer for three mortal men to totally remake it in theirs. The three were the most powerful leaders in the world—Franklin Roosevelt, Josef Stalin and... Read More

Rummspringa, a Pennsylvania Dutch word meaning “running around” is the transitional phase between schooling’s end and voluntary adult church membership, during which Amish young people are temporarily allowed to try on the ways and... Read More

The British freetraders of the early nineteenth century imagined globalization—or the global colonialism that was then practiced by European states—as a great social panacea that would distribute the earth’s resources and promote... Read More