Kathleen Parker

Flipping through TV channels on Sept. 11 was like rummaging through a box of old photographs. You see things you hadn't noticed before and ordinary images seem suddenly extraordinary. Of...

The environmental mandate to "think globally, act locally" gets tricky when it's your "local." Nowhere is the conflict between virtue and practicality more vivid than in Tallahassee, Fla.--capital of the...

"`Curiouser and curiouser!' cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English)." --"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," by Lewis Carroll Bush-bashing...

In the wake of last week's foiled terrorist plot to blow up 10 U.S. jetliners flying between Britain and the United States, sensible people are reconsidering our government's stubborn opposition...

Every historic moment has its iconic image. Vietnam had Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong on the street; the Oklahoma City bombing had a fireman holding a dying...

"Words are things; and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think." --Lord Byron (1788-1824), from "Don Juan" Lord...

When most of us hear the words "sex offender," we imagine a beast who kidnaps little girls from their bedrooms and rapes and murders them before dumping their bodies in...

Banality of Evil, meet Absurdity of Denial. Such was my thought as I listened to the recorded telephone conversation between the man who confessed to mowing down several people on...

The Greeks and Sigmund Freud had a name for what may ail President Bush: Thanatos. The death wish. Thanatos was the Greek personification of death, which Freud later expanded to...

What if the world went up in a mushroom cloud over a cartoon--or because of a photograph of some reveler dressed up like a pig? Well, of course, that would...