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,...

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...

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...

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

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’s the appeal of bad boys? Let’s be clear that the real “bad boys,” are the ones who have failed, the incarcerated felons, the...

I’ve been told that leaving academia when I did, at the relatively tender age of 63, and at the top of my scholarly and teaching game,...

We know our bodies intimately. It is through our bodies and our nervous systems that we are aware of and come to know anything at all....