15 May 2021 “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” -- Mae West I am 67 years old, the same age my father died,...

In 1974, Ernest Becker wrote The Denial of Death, a wonderful piece of psychology. While one of the characteristics unique to human...

Love cannot be disembodied even in its most sanctified forms, nor is it without sanctity even in its most fleshly. – Thomas Mann, Magic...

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...

I taught college for most of four decades, and it just seems to me that these sentiments have become alien to citizens of a nation for...

A nearby colleague, Phil Cary of Eastern University, in a recruitment video for his institution, said something powerful about a liberal...

An old college chum sent me an article called “Storm Clouds over Tulsa," written by Jacob Howland at the end of April 2019. It got me...

To distract my toddler one morning when my wife was trying to get him into the car, I picked up the cardboard container from some wine...

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...

The Ides of March My father once told me he didn’t know how a boy became a man without the experience of combat. I’m sure he never wished...