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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

We live in a social world in which we are mimetically engulfed, constantly sharing and imitating the behavior and facial expressions of...

We use the phrase “you’re breaking up” too often these days to simply mean (or occasionally just pretend) that an electronic signal...