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November 2018

November 01, 2018
Someday, if we choose to do so, we can party with the once dead. And...

October 2018

October 31, 2018
They panicked over the fakery in the news. As many as a million people may...
October 30, 2018
We sat talking, a mountain rising over us and a green valley beneath us. The...
October 29, 2018
Often I wait a bit to read a political book. Media will give me the...
October 28, 2018
Plato wrote a great many books and we are blessed with all of them. You...
October 27, 2018
Today an anti-Semite took a gun and killed good people, fellow Americans. I condemn this...
October 26, 2018
“Never,” Mom said, “believe a thing, because you wish it to be true.” She brought...
October 25, 2018
MMMBop. If you know it, as some of my colleagues do, then you are younger...
October 24, 2018
Get Truth Where You Can Get truth where you can. Some useful ideas comes to...
October 23, 2018
There is a species of literary juvenalia that goes looking for contradictions in great books...
October 22, 2018
The truth is out there, but knowing the truth requires work. That is the delightful...
October 21, 2018
Traditions, especially weird traditions, and college programs go together. I have been told there is...
October 20, 2018
No grandchildren yet, and my children are grownups now, yet I have always loved picture...
October 19, 2018
Good Advice from a Good Professor Don’t reject an argument nobody is making. This good...
October 18, 2018
“It’s bad luck to be you,” so said a video game on the game death...
October 17, 2018
Beat the bad guys and the History Channel will end up talking more about the...
October 16, 2018
I am (on occasion) asked about design and ideas surrounding design. Some questions are in...
October 15, 2018
A story like Atlantis is not historical, more like the Lord of the Rings than the...
October 14, 2018
History matters. There is a central importance to what happened, because what is now is...
October 13, 2018
Tolkien began writing by being overwhelmed by the great sea wave that swept away Atlantis...
October 12, 2018
Education is not getting a credential, but making the soul more like it should be...
October 11, 2018
We are distracting ourselves, not to death, that would be more interesting, but to shallowness....
October 10, 2018
Culture is harder to create than destroy, just as books are easier to review than...
October 09, 2018
I go to a Church that tweaks the liturgy every few centuries, whether it needs...
October 08, 2018
We are too busy to have deep views about anything for which we are not...
October 07, 2018
The times, we are told, keep flowing like a river, perhaps the stream we cannot...
October 06, 2018
I have been told by an excellent poet never to write poetry for the public...
October 05, 2018
Times are tough for everyone, but what if: Our faith has the resources to overcome...
October 04, 2018
Alan Noble has written a book to give us hope in distracted times. Too much...
October 03, 2018
Sometimes, oftentimes, I dread being alone and in silence, because silence reminds me of my...
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