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November 2020

November 26, 2020

Rest with Nessie this Thanksgiving Day

The wonder puppy-almost-a-dog Nessie rests when she is tired. As she spends much of the...

November 23, 2020

Peace and Humility are the Defaults: No Hate (The Theotokos Weighs In)

Christians must always give peace a chance. We side with the poor, the broken, the...

November 20, 2020

Thicker than Zoom: Thankful for 3D.

You cannot get hit with a plastic sword on Zoom. This is not a cause...

November 19, 2020

The Myth Must Hold

We need a story that will save us, because logic and facts apart from a narrative...

November 16, 2020

Until We Are Unmasked

My airline kept the middle seat free. That was most wonderful. This is not about...

November 15, 2020

Warning! Drug Use! Violence! Foul Language! Sexuality! (A Post with a WARNING)

You never know a person, even if you have been married almost thirty-five years. She...

November 10, 2020

End All This!

We were driving through Houston the other day and got stopped at the corner. There...

November 08, 2020

The Ticket: Full Stop on Pompous Assery

A temptation of graduate school is what my mother once described as "Pompous Assery" ....

October 2020

October 30, 2020

Continuous Wonder: Education for Life

Wonder about difficult, good, true, and beautiful works, but wonder. Few artifacts of human creation...

October 28, 2020

O Procla!

She had a revelation that put together all she had seen and knew. One woman...

October 26, 2020

At Least I am Happy. . . No Small Thing

We can be happy. That is no small thing. If you must deal with depression,...

October 25, 2020

The Talkie Man? Beware the Eristic! (Euthydemus)

Against all temptations, keep asking hard questions of the powerful and providing comfort to the...

October 23, 2020

Being a Real Cannibal? A Journalist’s Tale

The tyrant, or simply the establishment, promises you treats if you lie. As a member...

October 19, 2020

The Legend of Charlie Arms and Being Ready if We Can

Every day the College and the School begin with seven pulls on the rope of...

October 15, 2020

Our Hypothetical is not Our Reality (Republic)

Games are brilliant. Every year at Christmastide I try to play through some adventure that...

October 13, 2020

Beauty stirs Love and Then. . . (With a Sidelight on the Symposium and Diotima)

Beauty is all around us. Having said that truth, what next? The cosmos is beautiful,...

October 11, 2020

Our seeming error? Your fault.

Opposing the murderous Soviet Union was not what the cool kids did back when I...

October 08, 2020

The Lies They Tell Us: our “Betters” and the Stories We Believe (Walter Duranty)

If you were told that smart Americans got their news in the New York Times...

October 07, 2020

Beware the Dilettante: How Luxury Can Keep Us From Wisdom (Phaedrus)

Luxury is fun on a holiday, but can be deadly in a lifetime, keeping us...

October 06, 2020

Father Ryan’s Error: The Voices He Did and Did Not Hear

When we listen to our times, our church, whose poetry are we hearing and whose...

October 05, 2020

At the end of the Storm, Divine Happiness (Shakespeare’s The Tempest)

We saw Tropical Storm Harvey coming in Houston, knew that something bad was coming, but...

October 03, 2020

To Avoid Distraction (With Gladiators!)

There are people, topics, and positions that if you even mention them became the topic or keep...

October 02, 2020

Envy

That he was a Moor was bad enough. That he chose someone smarter, more virtuous...

September 2020

September 29, 2020

On Debating

What good is a debate? Debating is a good way to find out the merits...

September 26, 2020

Disqualified? the ACLU doesn’t care? No Religious Test!

For a Black American that went to a certain church, some very bright students, they...

September 25, 2020

Leading a Discussion with a Small Group (Almost a Listicle but with a Pickwick Picture to Keep it From Being a Cool Exploitative Listicle)

The group discussion in your class has gotten smaller, pandemic or whatever other reason. If...

September 23, 2020

Sophist, Statesman, Philosopher? (The Sophist)

When the City is in Trouble What to do when education has been corrupted and...

September 17, 2020

Courage with Prudence

I was once asked to go to a country that had just shaken free from...

September 16, 2020

Speak 3 Times, Each Time Louder: Weird Rules, Deeper Meaning

Watch enough television, and sadly I have watched enough television, and you observe a rule:...

September 13, 2020

Same Song, Different Peformance

Can we make tomorrow, a common day, a beautiful day? Truth will help us, a...