Undercurrents

“…an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government.” – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart (New York Times Co. v. United States, 1971) In 1963 the Weekly Reader that arrived in my 8th grade classroom was...

“The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.”—William Sloane Coffin Recently a friend asked me if I believed in aliens. I was ready to brush off an answer, roll my eyes and mouth off something I hoped would be witty. My...