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August 05, 2016

What is a Podcast?

I remember clearly the morning several years ago when a colleague from the English department,...

August 03, 2016

A Modest Proposal

Classes begin at the end of August, and I'll be back in the classroom for...

August 01, 2016

The Rule of the Best

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill I...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Those Effing Blue Jays

It has been hot this week—low to mid-nineties with high humidity. I know, for those...

July 27, 2016

The Sausage Sisters

It has been a rough ten days at our house. Not because Jeanne had knee...

July 25, 2016

Believing What I Think

Last week at the Republican National Convention, the Republicans nominated as their candidate for President...

July 20, 2016

A Gnawing Suspicion

A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions,...

July 18, 2016

Random Midsummer Thoughts

After the most beautiful Rhode Island June--sunny and low eighties day after day--in my twenty-two...

July 17, 2016

Home for Each Other

Twenty-eight years ago today my father said a few words over a beautiful redhead and me....

July 13, 2016

My Life as Lady Macbeth

The new semester begins in less than two months and I'm pumped! I'm particularly anxious to be...

July 11, 2016

Are We Better Than This?

A few days ago I posted the following on Facebook: My favorite sort of discussion...

July 09, 2016

Welfare in my Back Yard

Although I am a very liberal guy, I occasionally worry about the welfare state. I...

July 03, 2016

Happy Birthday to Us!

In preparation for our nation's natal day tomorrow, I offer the following--shamelessly stolen from The Onion--for...

July 01, 2016

Even Introverts Get Lonely

One of the most important reasons that Jeanne and I have been able to stay...

June 2016

June 29, 2016

Raising the Bar

One of my greatest joys as a philosophy professor is that I get to be...

June 24, 2016

A Reluctant Rose

In spite of my love of and occasional success with flowers and plants, I have...

June 22, 2016

Holding Off Socrates

As is often the case in June, several huge soccer tournaments currently are under way in...

June 19, 2016

What I inherited from Mad Eagle

On this Father's Day, I'm remembering my Dad with whom I had a complicated relationship...

June 15, 2016

A Free Man of Faith

I wrote this essay last Saturday as a reflection on Muhammad Ali's memorial service that...

June 13, 2016

The day after . . . again

I learned at church yesterday morning of the horrific massacre at the Pulse nightclub in...

June 11, 2016

Simply “The Greatest”

Upon hearing a week ago that Muhammad Ali had passed away, I posted something very...

June 08, 2016

Here Comes This Dreamer

Your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions. This, promises...

June 03, 2016

A REAL Philosopher

Somebody put a drop of his blood under a magnifying-glass, and it was all semicolons...

May 2016

May 31, 2016

Four Things to Remember

My past several reading weeks have been spent, for the most part, with Chief Inspector...

May 27, 2016

Je me souviens Québec

Louise Penny’s Chief Inspector Gamache mystery series has everything a lover of mysteries could want....

May 25, 2016

Ordinary Lives

There is no greatness where there is no goodness, simplicity, or truth Leo Tolstoy Although...

May 21, 2016

Fear Itself

Long security lines at O'Hare airport. A plane falls out of the sky flying from...

May 20, 2016

Tasmanian Dog

As I was cleaning out files last week, I came across an essay from a...

May 11, 2016

To the Graduating Seniors

For those who read this blog regularly, it will come as no surprise that I...

May 06, 2016

It’s That Time Of Year

On Monday, one of my Providence College faculty colleagues posted this on Facebook: Today was...

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