The seven capital sins of the Internet
According to one of the founders of LinkedIn, each social network corresponds to one of the seven deadly sins.
Is It Immodest to Wear Deliberately Ripped Clothes?
Perhaps one of the more sensitive personal issues you can raise with people is that of dress.
Children of the Childless
A "factoid" was brought to my attention by the Italian journalist Giulio Meotti.
Vapid Goodyness
In his diagnosis of the "malaises of modernity," the philosopher Charles Taylor claims that our disenchanted culture suffers from a lack of depth, particularly obvious "in what should be the crucial moments of life: birth, marriage, death."
Have you packed your own suitcase?
No time or society, I imagine, is entirely without its ironies or contradictions.
The curious saga of the salamander
In the winter months, it would be salutary for people young and old to put down their iPods and other electronic devices and tell each other stories.
They're confessors, not 'culture-warriors'
Re-reading the last volume of Parkman's massive work, France and England in North America, I was struck by his keen insight into the future.
The Unification of Europe
In 1988 as Pope John Paul II began his speech to the European Parliament, Ian Paisley, a member for Northern Ireland, shouted that the pope was the Antichrist.