This is a list of older articles that I’ve written (for the most recent, please see my home page). These can also be sorted by publication and topic, using the links on the side.

Even as a student, during perhaps the bleakest years of an otherwise dominating half-century of college football, I knew my school was just as likely to be called “Linebacker U” as Penn State. Yet, upon recently returning to my alma mater, I noticed that Beaver Stadium isn’t the only building on campus where a strong defense is revered.

With the primary elections creeping up, Americans should stop and consider who more embodies their opinions on the issues and not who has the most money and power to be a viable force against the other side.

Like much of America, even the small beach towns along the Jersey Shore are influenced by the presence of a military base.

I’d like to imagine a world with Paris Hilton as someone versed in the nonviolent teachings of Jesus. What if this country’s greatest distraction from worldly dilemmas actually took up cause to educate and enlighten us on the solutions to such problems?

Those working for peace may want to voice their dissent through tactics that sever the flow of tax dollars to policies they find morally reprehensible.

Given our position in the world, it would be to our advantage—and by extension to the advantage of every other inhabitant of this planet—that we lead the way toward disarmament.

A little known version of the Bible, written by this nation’s third president, and handed out to new members of Congress in the early part of the 20th century, serves as a reminder of the moral obligations our elected officials should uphold.

If the war on terror has accomplished anything, it seems to be the far-reaching belief that Islam is a religion of violence and that Muslims ultimately decide the viability of a peaceful future. This dilemma has caused many, such as New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, to ponder, “Where is the Muslim Martin Luther King?”

How Washington-Style Politics and a deal with Big Oil condemned Canada’s pledge to fight climate change.

Canada’s story of public deception and the courtship of Big Oil may seem like a tragic downfall, but it’s no more shameful than the complete failure of the world’s most potent emitter of greenhouse gases, the United States, to take any action at all.