Joshuah Bearman

When I was 12, I lost Grislor, Lord of the Half-Dark, somewhere inside the Glacial Rift of the Frost Giant Jarl. I had nurtured poor Grislor from a feeble little Prestidigitator to a powerful Wizard -- 12th level with no cheating, if you want to know -- and now he......

In 1970, as the bombing campaign in Cambodia was in full swing, George Regas, the new rector of All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, spoke out against the Vietnam War. He delivered a sermon titled “Mr. President, the Jury Is In” -- a response to Nixon’s comments that the purposefulness......

Slobodan Milosevic‘s ignominies in the dock at the Hague last week are the latest sign that the international justice movement is reaching maturity. The first major success was in 1999, when the British House of Lords approved Augusto Pinochet’s extradition to Spain to face charges of murder and torture. Although......

You might think it’s hard to argue against improving airport security. For years, security experts have called for reform. Among their recommendations: background checks for workers, better pay, more rigorous training. Maybe, they suggested, the government should step in; after all, it is a matter of basic safety. And now,......

All the money in the world couldn‘t build a missile-defense system that works. Nor would a missile shield stop terrorism. The past five weeks showed that the real threat is what defense professionals call ”poor man’s bombs“-- biological, chemical, and clever use of conventional weapons. Yet the national missile-defense program......

In 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall told a group of alumni assembled on Harvard Yard for commencement speeches about his plan for economic aid to Europe. “[T]he United States should . . . assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can......

Last May, Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-’Owhali was convicted on every one of the 302 counts facing him for his role in the U.S. embassy bombing in Kenya and Tanzania. Al-‘Owhali was captured in Kenya and extradited to the United States, after the FBI and Justice Department mounted what Louis Freeh......

Everyone knows that the Taliban don‘t like TV. Along with ”Western“ leather jackets, and the so-called Titanic coif, named after Leonardo DiCaprio’s foppish cut in the movie, television has been banned since the Taliban became Afghanistan‘s de facto rulers in 1996. And there are no newspapers, films or music. The......