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  • Homer’s Advice for Husbands and Wives

    Homer’s Advice for Husbands and Wives0

    Author’s Introduction: Imagine if Homer, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, and the other great poets of ancient Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages had been given the gift, not only to peer into the twenty-first century, but to correspond with we who live in that most confusing and rudderless of centuries. Had it been in their power

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  • Homer Simpson, the Unlikely Moral Exemplar

    Homer Simpson, the Unlikely Moral Exemplar0

    Homer Simpson is far from a good person. Among his many defects are alcoholism, sleeping on the job, a general disregard for the law, a gambling problem, and child abuse in the regular strangling of Bart. Yet in spite of his many moral shortcomings, there is one way in which the Simpson family patriarch has

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  • Homer on Why Hospitality is the Greatest Virtue

    Homer on Why Hospitality is the Greatest Virtue0

    Perhaps you would like to know what virtue I consider the greatest of all. For me that question is not a difficult one. Though I celebrate courage in my Iliad and perseverance in my Odyssey, there is a third, greater virtue, apart from which civilization can neither thrive nor survive. I speak of xenia, a

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  • Homeowner Shoots Teen Breaking in to Home, Family of Teen Livid at Homeowner

    Homeowner Shoots Teen Breaking in to Home, Family of Teen Livid at Homeowner1

    Any family who just received word that their teenager was shot and killed would be understandably devastated, upset, and angry. But how do you react if your teenager was shot after breaking in to someone’s home? Do you primarily blame the homeowner or the teenager? While all of the details are not in on a

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  • Homemakers: The Last Bastion in Our Cultural Chaos

    Homemakers: The Last Bastion in Our Cultural Chaos0

    On the windowsill above my kitchen sink is a small sign reading, “It’s so good to be home.” I found this sign in a box in the basement a while ago and decided to give it a place of honor upstairs. Though I live as caretaker for my daughter’s house and rattle around in a

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  • Homelessness Charity Declines Federal Aid, Gets Hundreds Back on Their Feet

    Homelessness Charity Declines Federal Aid, Gets Hundreds Back on Their Feet0

    Growing up, Teena Faison never imagined she’d find herself a single mom and homeless. “We didn’t wake up one day and go, ‘Hey, I just want to be homeless with my kids,’” she told The Daily Signal “No. There’s many, many contributing factors to that – lack of education, lack of resources, addiction.” At 34

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