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...

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...

“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...

One of the problems with exploring the neuroscience behind any kind of human experience is the fear that doing so is reductive, and turns...

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

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

One of my favorite Greek myths is that of Eros and Psyche. Eros was a god, the son of Aphrodite. He is a handsome young man, not the...