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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Strange beginnings to some thoughts about epigenesis. For those of you who aren’t sure what that means, it’s the part of biological...

We’ve all expressed strong feelings about something or someone with expressions like “you smell,” “you make me sick,” or “you make me...

Parental Advisory: Explicit Content One of the truths about our neurophysiology is habituation, feeling less and less with repetition of...