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Sex and the Commons III -- Stunted Intimacy

Love cannot be disembodied even in its most sanctified forms, nor is it without sanctity even in its most fleshly. – Thomas Mann, Magic M...

Sex and The Commons II: Uncommon Sex

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...

Square Ball in a Round Hole

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 co...

Psychotherapy Emasculated: APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Boys and Men I.

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...

How Do You Think You Are?

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

Tropic Discourse

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 g...

Bad Boys

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 sex...

Your Guts

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, “t...

How We Know Ourselves: c. In the World

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. Bu...

How We Know Ourselves: b. Bodily

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

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