I’d like to begin this week’s column with a story of something miraculous that happened to me recently. Over Easter weekend, I went back home to Toms River. There, I had lunch with a friend, whom...

For a long time, I have been “the quiet girl.” Most of my acquaintances up until a few years ago would probably say that I was shy and a wallflower, but generally really nice. In the past, I haven’t...

People always told me that college would make me question my beliefs, and it did — but not at all in the ways I thought it would. Let’s face it: college is weird. We’re suddenly ejected from...

Whether it’s the “blood libels” of early modern Europe, Germany in the 1930s, Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, or even Occupy Wall Street, any person of good will should be able to detect the pattern:...