Events at the college where I teach have me thinking about the ersatz religion known as ideology.
"The mob" is out to cancel anyone who crosses it. Paris Dennard describes the problem and offers a solution.
By early March 1865, more than a million Americans had killed or wounded each other in civil war; the killing, wounding, and maiming continued for another month or so.
I have been reading the works of Saint Hildegard (1098–1179), the visionary mystic, naturalist, scriptural exegete, artist, and musical composer.
To insist that freedom is inseparable from virtue while also emphasizing the need for strong limits on government power is becoming a very lonely path in today's America.
I cannot think of any politician, thinker or novelist who has sent so much comfort and aspiration to so many people.
I travelled from Poland, already inwardly frozen by the eerie chill of Communism — and Communist Prague did nothing to raise my spirits.
The fact that hell was not built in a day, and that language was an important auxiliary in its construction, naturally enough makes us think of our own linguistic situation.