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  • Put Not Your Trust in Princes

    Put Not Your Trust in Princes0

    A disturbing disease infects Americans. It’s not COVID, but it hits the COVID-averse and COVID-could-not-care-less, Democrats and Republicans alike. This disease is one of hate, characterized by the propensity to place our preferred elected officials on the highest pedestal possible, while casting those of alternate political persuasions into the bowels of hell. This doesn’t mean

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  • Pushing Up Daisies: Human Beings as Compost

    Pushing Up Daisies: Human Beings as Compost0

    On February 6, 2019, the Washington State Senate passed Senate Bill 5001, which would allow for the composting of human bodies. From The Spokesman-Review out of Spokane, we have this account: The bill “may change the world,” said bill sponsor Sen. Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, adding that Washington could be a leader in environmentally friendly alternatives

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  • Pushing the Pause Button on Profanity

    Pushing the Pause Button on Profanity0

    While out on an evening walk in a local park, I heard a fellow walker coming down the path behind me, talking on his phone. His tone was even-keeled and calm … but it seemed like every fifth word was an expletive, uttered in the same calm manner. I cite this incident not because it’s

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  • Pushing the COVID-19 Panic Narrative

    Pushing the COVID-19 Panic Narrative0

    Many Americans remain terrified of COVID-19. The narrative of panic advanced by much of the news media fuels that feeling. In recent days, the focus has been on skyrocketing numbers of people testing positive for the coronavirus. But there are very promising signs that the virus is burning itself out. After spiking earlier this year,

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  • Pursuing the Good Life

    Pursuing the Good Life0

    In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis writes upon the differences between previous eras in human history and our modern world, which has arguably been building since the 1700s: “For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality, and the solution had been knowledge, self-discipline, and

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  • Purposeless Masculinity in Beryl Bainbridge’s ‘The Birthday Boys’

    Purposeless Masculinity in Beryl Bainbridge’s ‘The Birthday Boys’1

    In the face of certain death, does being civilized matter? All the narrators of Beryl Bainbridge’s 1991 historical novel The Birthday Boys die. And still, knowing their deaths loom, they carry on with birthdays, religious practices, and virtues like loyalty and courage. Heavily based on real life diaries and letters, this novel is a hybrid

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