Georgetown University’s Prisons and Justice Initiative Hires Adnan Syed
• December 27, 2022

On December 12, when Georgetown University’s new Prisons and Justice Initiative (PJI) hired the key murder suspect featured in the most widely streamed true-crime podcast in history, the university’s Jesuit […]

Editorial: Reading, ’Riting, ’Rithmetic… and Religion  
• August 17, 2022

The other day I was talking to a neighbor whose daughter, a rising high-school junior, was beginning to plan her college visits. Suddenly, it’s become very complicated, she told me. […]

Crime & Safety: Latest Reports, Aggravated Politics and Firearms
• August 15, 2022

Heightened Political Tensions and D.C. Homicide Stats Recent crime stats for the District show improvements in many categories, but not for homicides. So far, in 2022, the District has seen […]

Re Dobbs vs. Jackson, Beware the Originalists   
• July 13, 2022

With all their emphasis on the importance of the founders’ intentions in creating the U.S. Constitution as the foundation of federal law, the Constitutional “Originalists” and their enthusiastic cheerleaders might […]

Profs & Pints DC: Reproductive Justice after Roe
• June 1, 2022

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Reproductive Justice after Roe,” with Sara Matthiesen, professor of history and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at George Washington University and author of Reproduction Reconceived: […]

SCOTUS Springs a Leak 
• May 11, 2022

Leaks are pernicious things. You often don’t know you have one until water starts to drip down your wall or a stain creeps across the ceiling. It’s not a good […]

Editorial: Sound and Fury 
• April 13, 2022

Forget the calendar. It may say Spring, but we seem to be stuck in a “winter of discontent” that plays on and on in an endless loop.   From Ukraine, where […]