Articles

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.

Penn State's Frightening Defense

Penn State’s Frightening Defense

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.

Taking Back The Election

Taking Back The Election

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.

Fear And Loathing On The Jersey Shore

Fear And Loathing On The Jersey Shore

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

What Would Paris Do?

What Would Paris Do?

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?

Why Pay For War?

Why Pay For War?

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.

Hooked On Weapons: Unfortunately It's Us

Hooked On Weapons: Unfortunately It’s Us

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.

Jefferson's Moral Code For Congress

Jefferson’s Moral Code For Congress

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.

Violence In The Eye Of The Beholder

Violence In The Eye Of The Beholder

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?”

Canada's Climate Failure

Canada’s Climate Failure

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

Canada Joins US In Ignoring Warming

Canada Joins US In Ignoring Warming

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.