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The Hammer of God: Mortality Salience under COVID-19

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

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 M...

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 i...

Sex and The Commons I: The Erosion of the Common Good

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 wh...

Living on Tulsa Time II: From Groves of Academe to Open Plain

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

Living on Tulsa Time I: Down from the Ivory Tower

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 thi...

Square Ball in a Round Hole

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 co...

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 swallow...

Psychotherapy Emasculated: APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men I.

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...

Poet Identity

Guest Blog. This essay was written by a recent student-friend, as he explores one of those areas by which we establish meaning in our liv...

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