The goodness of work
Evanston RoundTable, June 10, 2026 Pope Leo XIV recently issued an encyclical (Magnifica Humanitas, “Magnificent Humanity: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence”) about the importance and dignity of work, especially in an age when it is feared that artificial intelligence may swallow jobs, spit out workers and create vast unemployment, slicing a huge […]
Ambassador for Baseball
Chicago Tribune, January 31, 2015 To the Editor: When I worked at Lerner Newspapers in the mid-’70s we put together a softball team and challenged our suburban rivals, the Pioneer Press. Someone there knew Ernie Banks and asked him to umpire. You can imagine what a pleasure and honor it was to step up to […]