Sex and the Commons III -- Stunted Intimacy
Love cannot be disembodied even in its most sanctified forms, nor is it without sanctity even in its most fleshly. – Thomas Mann, Magic...
Sex and The Commons II: Uncommon Sex
In this three-part series, I wanted to reflect on the relationship between the erosion of our discourse on the Common Good and our most...
The Futility of Psychotherapy: APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men II.
Out Like a Lamb Gore Vidal once said that since it is power, not sex, that is the true motor to human life, young people no longer...
How We Know Ourselves: d. Intimately
There is a real paradox in intimate relationships. No one wants to be alone, but for someone to be really with you, especially to be a...
How We Know Ourselves: b. Bodily
The tender pragmatisms of flesh have poetries no enigma--human or divine--can diminish or demean. Indeed, it can only cause them, and...
The Power of Literary Reading
This is a "guest blog" from my old friend Martha, my one-time Dean of Faculty who got me involved in a writing group, part of the...
Naked, and You Clothed Me
One of the most iconic images of the Vietnam war era was of the “Napalm Girl,” Phan Thi Kim Phuc, her clothes burned away by American...
Disembodied Communication
We live in a social world in which we are mimetically engulfed, constantly sharing and imitating the behavior and facial expressions of...
You're Breaking Up
We use the phrase “you’re breaking up” too often these days to simply mean (or occasionally just pretend) that an electronic signal...