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...

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...

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

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...

Knowing ourselves must surely include knowing not only that but how much our very sense of ourselves is a “mythic reality” by which we...

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

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