Imagine a citizen of Rome thinking about the world the year Herod Antipas became tetrarch of Galilee—4 bc, the historians reckon. There are skirmishes…

Dear Students, I’ll tell you about two key moments in my life. They came close together. I think I was seventeen. I’m not sure…

Some of the most popular films today depict ancient pagan gods as superheroes. The Avengers (2012), for example, directed by Joss Whedon, one of…

Great forces have been unleashed politically, and the ripples set in motion are washing over our world. The 2016 American presidential election revealed that…

I like to think that my beliefs are pure, held only because they are demonstrably true, and maintained in a form untouched by the…

Usually we are simply swept along by progress, and hardly notice how the advances in technology and the marketplace actually work themselves out in…

If you have never read Tom Wolfe, you will have to take my word for it that he loves language. As a journalist, novelist…

The headline on the cover of Self was printed in a font clearly designed to catch our attention. “Live the Dream! Strong / Sexy…

To live in the modern Western world is to live where the public square is determinedly secularized. The players in the square in America,…

One of our neighbors uses a pickup occasionally to haul junk to the dump or to transport furniture when a new tenant moves into…