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 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 suppose I have been interested in metaphor and other tropes since I went to a conference on “Metaphor and Thought” back when I was in...

“So… what do you do?” When we ask this question, we are often asking what someone “does for a living,” but it means so much more than...

The tender pragmatisms of flesh have poetries no enigma--human or divine--can diminish or demean. Indeed, it can only cause them, and...

The Socratic maxim, gnothi seauton, “know thyself,” was originally intended to emphasize its importance, over time wasted on things like...

“This Be the Verse,” by Philip Larkin, 1971 They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the...

Glendower: “I can call spirits from the vasty deep.” Hotspur: “Why, so can I, or so can anyone; But will they come when you do call...