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  • What Selfies and Jane Eyre Have in Common

    What Selfies and Jane Eyre Have in Common0

    What do Jane Eyre and selfies have in common? One is a timeless work of literature from well before cameras were in common usage. The other is a much derided, and much practiced, modern form of narcissism. And yet, a recent article in The Atlantic by Karen Swallow Prior connects the selfie to Charlotte Bronte’s

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  • What SEALs and Caesar Teach About Slowing Down

    What SEALs and Caesar Teach About Slowing Down0

    With the exception of some entomologists, few people are fans of cockroaches. We may admire the beauty of a butterfly, the industry of an ant, and the intricacy of a spider’s web, but show us a cockroach, and we’re ready to roll up that magazine we’re reading and swat away.  In 1975, I rented a

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  • What Science Says About When Life Begins

    What Science Says About When Life Begins1

    On Wednesday December 1, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson. This case involves a Mississippi law that limits abortion to 15 “weeks’ gestation except in medical emergency and in cases of severe fetal abnormality.” During the hearing, Mississippi Solicitor General Scott G. Stewart defended the law by asserting that

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  • What Saint Augustine Would Have Thought of Joel Osteen

    What Saint Augustine Would Have Thought of Joel Osteen0

    “This guy is the best thing that has ever happened to Twitter,” ran a text I recently sent to friends. The occasion? A tweet from “St. AugOsteen.” Taking quotes from famed Prosperity Gospel preacher Joel Osteen and mixing them with those of St. Augustine of Hippo, St. AugOsteen creates some pretty fantastic statements. For the

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  • What Ryan Cooper Gets Wrong About Classical Liberalism

    What Ryan Cooper Gets Wrong About Classical Liberalism0

    You might think Enlightenment liberalism, or classical liberalism, did some good for the world. It gave us political consciousness of individual rights, eroded slavery, ended religious wars, brought free trade, and encouraged humanity to embrace trade and creativity over war, violence, and authoritarianism. The story of liberalism is about universal human ennoblement. That’s my view,

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  • What Russia’s Real-Life ‘Hooligan’ Fight Clubs Can Teach Us About Reality, Violence, and the Human Condition

    What Russia’s Real-Life ‘Hooligan’ Fight Clubs Can Teach Us About Reality, Violence, and the Human Condition0

    In the lead up to the 2018 World Cup in Russia, many sports journalists have been writing about the state of Russian sports and culture. This continues a theme from the Winter Olympics in February where Russian contestants were banned because of alleged state-funded doping. But as fans from around the world arrive in Russia

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