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...

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...

We all take as a given, like fish in water, a cultural and historical preoccupation with the “self” as something to nurture, protect,...

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creation out of void, but out of chaos." -- Mary Shelley We are all mystics...

An occasionally wise erstwhile friend once told me he thought there were three important things in life to think about. While his...

A personal example, using myth to understand and make sense out of the course of one’s life, is from my early academic journey. It uses...