
Many commonly celebrate optimistic innovation as a source of historical progress. In this narrative, tradition hinders inevitable enlightenment. Such a view can distort our own … Read More ›
Many commonly celebrate optimistic innovation as a source of historical progress. In this narrative, tradition hinders inevitable enlightenment. Such a view can distort our own … Read More ›
Evil. It’s everywhere in popular culture. Ours is the land of movie and TV heroes and superheroes, after all. As much as the entertainment press … Read More ›
I welcome this opportunity to introduce the poetry of Seamus Heaney to those of you not already familiar with it and to say something about … Read More ›
Call to mind, if you will, the halcyon days at the good old university, drinking port and singing along to the Tom Lehrer songs, “Bright … Read More ›
Like anyone moving to a new home, my husband and I had certain things we were looking for: proximity to a Biblical church, driving distance … Read More ›
Let us focus on cultivating the kind of soul that is capable of self-gift. Marriage isn’t an institution that “fixes’ men. Yes, it can temper them ,,,
Without too much fanfare, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics remains a classic that ought to be studied over and over, even as the literature on it …
When I was a child, I remember thinking that being grown-up was a destination or a finish line to cross. Now, after graduating college, getting … Read More ›
In 1977, right between the release of Jaws and E.T. The Extraterrestrial, Steven Spielberg made Close Encounters of the Third Kind. While by no means … Read More ›