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  • Unplugging From Reality: Have Some of Us Lost Our Minds?

    Unplugging From Reality: Have Some of Us Lost Our Minds?0

    My Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary is no longer new – it was published in 1986 – most of the time my online dictionary suffices. Once in a blue moon, however, I flip open my trusty Webster’s. The word I was hunting this time was psychosis, which this faded red volume defines as “fundamental mental derangement (as paranoia)

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  • Unpacking the Theology of Dante’s Inferno

    Unpacking the Theology of Dante’s Inferno0

    Long considered one of the most influential, provocative, and beautiful works of literature in Western civilization, Dante’s “Divine Comedy” deserves even more attention for its profound spiritual and theological depth. This might seem obvious as the primary setting for this epic poem are the three destinations of the Christian afterlife: Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. However,

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  • Unmasking Marble and Bronze

    Unmasking Marble and Bronze0

    Protests and looting were supplanted last week by an orgy of more symbolic destruction. Statues of various figures from our civilization’s past – Christopher Columbus, a Texas Ranger, numerous confederate Civil War memorials, and even Philadelphia’s Frank Rizzo – have been toppled, defaced, or scheduled for removal by compliant officials. In the same spirit, a

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  • Unlawful gun owners commit 80 percent of gun crimes

    Unlawful gun owners commit 80 percent of gun crimes0

    Lawful gun owners accounted for just 18 percent of gun violence, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh. Researchers analyzed 762 cases in which a gun was recovered by the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Firearm Tracking Unit (FTU). “Most perpetrators (79%) were carrying a gun that did not belong to

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  • University Shouldn’t Punish Me for Not Addressing Male Student as ‘Ms.’

    University Shouldn’t Punish Me for Not Addressing Male Student as ‘Ms.’0

    Returning from a sabbatical in my 21st year at Ohio’s Shawnee State University, I resumed teaching my regular political philosophy course. Taking questions in one such class at the end of my first day back, I acknowledged a male student with a “Yes, sir?” (It’s my practice to address my students in this way and

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  • University Proposes a Campus Retirement Community for Alumni

    University Proposes a Campus Retirement Community for Alumni0

    • August 14, 2015

    In the Western world, the university was created to be a utopian environment of learning separated off from the harshness and ignorance of the world outside. At many of today’s universities, learning has taken a backseat, but the utopian ambitions remain, now mainly in the form of entertainment. For four to eight years, students can

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