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April 2018

April 23, 2018

A Sky of Parchment Made

Leaving work the other evening—a cold, blustery twilight that belied the spring it’s supposed to...

April 02, 2018

Blade Runner 2049: Master Copy

For a long time I’ve said that the 1982 film Blade Runner is my favorite...

March 2018

March 07, 2018

The Gutenberg Imagination

In twenty years (maybe fewer?) will people still be reading what we’ve come to call...

January 2018

January 29, 2018

Phantom Thread : A Union of Psyche and Eros

Anyone blessed enough to receive a good classical education is somewhere along the way warned...

December 2017

December 20, 2017

The Play’s the Thing

In a recent interview about some stories I’ve written, the interviewer asked several questions regarding...

November 2017

November 22, 2017

Fargo: The True Story

This is a true story. Those are the words that have begun every episode of...

October 2017

October 10, 2017

Famous Last Words

Towards the end of his life, Winston Churchill famously quipped: “I am ready to meet...

September 2017

September 21, 2017

Secret Mercies

Ours is a confessional age, a time in which telling all is not only customarily...

September 07, 2017

Still on the Line

I will not claim credit for many things, but one virtue I own is that...

August 2017

August 21, 2017

Prowling the Woods

My father told me that when he used to bird hunt through the Kilgore Hills...

July 2017

July 11, 2017

The Case For Charlie Gard

Charlie Gard, the English child you see here, will likely die—indeed, by the time this...

June 2017

June 28, 2017

New Names for Old Gods

For modern man, a loss of the religious center resulted in all kinds of maladies.

June 12, 2017

A Book Without a Spine

The picture you see to the left is of a bookshelf in a local Starbucks....

May 2017

May 15, 2017

The Madding Crowd

Why is it that we so often gain courage or cowardice to do bad from...

April 2017

April 24, 2017

Praying for a Hurricane on an Ordinary Wednesday Afternoon

“It is easier to survive a category five hurricane than it is to get through...

April 03, 2017

God’s Acquaintances

They say God won’t let you go under; but it seems he will let your...

March 2017

March 09, 2017

Distorted Reality and FX’s Taboo

It’s been said that human beings warp everything that they touch as a consequence of...

February 2017

February 15, 2017

Anne Fontaine’s The Innocents

After World War II devastated eastern Europe, the Red Army pushed into the countries allotted...

January 2017

January 24, 2017

Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea

It’s impossible to speak of Kenneth Lonergan’s film Manchester by the Sea without alluding to...

January 03, 2017

Transcendence: A Tribute to William Christenberry (1936-2016)

“The art of losing isn’t hard to master,” Elizabeth Bishop said, with irony. Still, it’s...

December 2016

December 05, 2016

The Nightingale Floors

In Kyoto, Japan, seventeenth-century Nijo Castle contains an architectural feature meant to protect the ruling...

November 2016

November 09, 2016

An Interview with Newbery Medal-Winning Author Clare Vanderpool, Part 2

Clare Vanderpool, Newbery-Medal winning author of the novels Moon over Manifest (Delacorte, 2010) and Navigating...

November 08, 2016

An Interview with Newbery Medal-Winning Author Clare Vanderpool, Part 1

Clare Vanderpool, Newbery-Medal winning author of the novels Moon over Manifest (Delacorte, 2010) and Navigating...

October 2016

October 10, 2016

Elegy for My Father

My father: Roy Franklin Harmon, Jr., M.D., passed away on September 22, 2016 at the...

September 2016

September 19, 2016

The Power of Names

A few weeks back, the news related a story that a confederate veteran killed at...

August 2016

August 18, 2016

The Cost of Glory

Here I sit, watching the Olympics again; it hooks me every time. I always say...

August 08, 2016

When Ethics Conflict with the Law

Among the courses that I teach is Professional Responsibility—Legal Ethics—which is a subject covered on...

July 2016

July 19, 2016

Risen

In a well-written and well-acted scene from Kevin Reynolds and Paul Aiello’s recent film, Risen,...

June 2016

June 23, 2016

God Ponders the Heart

In Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth, the writers frame the story in such a way that the...

June 02, 2016

The World Beyond the Room

The most obvious analysis of Emma Donoghue’s Room, one of last year’s most heralded films,...