By Michael Patrick O’Brien– There’s a palpable sweetness in the air at Our Lady of the Mississippi monastery near Dubuque, Iowa. The source might be the abbey’s famous tasty caramel…
Posts published in November 2022
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– In rural eastern Iowa, floating in the middle of a sea of corn fields, red barns, and silver silos, there is a wee bit o’ the…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– One recent Sunday afternoon, while walking in downtown Salt Lake City, I encountered a large group of people marching to the state capitol and protesting the…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Law school makes you see and think about things differently than normal people. I realized this one day in property class, when we studied landlord/tenant law.…
By Gary Topping– As a historian, I have never found the concept of a “generation” particularly useful, for two contradictory reasons. For one thing, it threatens to lock one into…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– Salve is a versatile word. In Latin (pronounced “sal-vay”), it is a greeting and a welcoming phrase, derived from the verb for wishing someone health and…