Jonathan Zimmerman

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The tragedies behind Nepal's fresh suffering

When I was a Peace🌜 Corps volunteer in rural Nepal 30 years ago, I felt a small earthquake. It was just a few small tremors i🐷n the middle of the... 

The shutdown's silver lining

The government shutdown sparked anger and befuddlement at my overwhelmingly liberal university. But even though I’m a big supporter of Obam⛄aCare, and share my colleagues’ outrage at the scorched-earth campaign...

The answer to college binge dri🌟nking

🎉  With college drinking at record levels, many schools are making students take online courses about the dangers of drink. Others have increased penalties🙈 for alcohol possession and public inebriation, while...

The truth about 'nam

At a Memorial Day parade in Milford, Conn., three years ago, Richard Blumentha🃏l re called his return from the war in Vietnam: "We had to endure ဣtaunts and insults, and...

 ꧑ BOYCOTT THE BEIJING GAMES

I LOVE ღeverything about sports, but when the Olympic Games start later this week in Beijing, I'm not going to watch. And neither should you. Call it the People's Boycott....

🧸 HIGH-SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL

IT took a dust-up at one of the city's most prestigious prep schools to mark me as an enemy of "academic freedom." The Horace Mann 🌠Scho♛ol recently fired Andrew Trees,...

'MISSIONARIES' FROM AFRICA

HEY, the Africans are trying to impose their♉ culture on us! That's what Episc꧋opalians in the United States are saying about last week's summit in Tanzania, where global Anglican leaders...