Letter to an Aspiring Kingmaker
Hey you. Yes, you, the one poring over push-poll numbers and wondering how you can get more smug college kids to accost people with clipboards
An Apple in time
Another working road trip. My colleague needs a piece of equipment from the Apple store, which is in a mall. The Apple store is swarming
A pox on this house
The last fortnight was chicken pox time for the Woodlief boys. I have acquaintances who are apostles of all things scientific and modern, and who
Words
Some of you might like my recent essay at Image’s Good Letters channel. Here’s an excerpt: “The vicissitudes of life may chink or scorch or
Confederacy of Dunces
“They would try to make me into a moron who liked television and new cars and frozen food. Don’t you understand? Psychiatry is worse than
Silence
Some of you may appreciate my essay at Patheos about the long silent witnesses to Jerry Sandusky’s crimes against children, and the propensity for most
Stream of conscience
Whenever I have a lot to do, and I finally muster the resolve to do it, I’ll say “time to get down to it.” This
On the passing of Sheriff Andy
My first miserable year in graduate school I got a used television and paid for cable so I could watch four episodes of The Andy
Homecoming
Some of you may like my latest essay at Image Journal’s section of Patheos, “Coming Home to Fatherhood.” Here’s an excerpt: “Or perhaps it’s closer
A prayer for the lying
My children woke me to pray this morning at 5:45 a.m. Actually, they woke me playing Legos and making the range of dramatic voices and
Thin thread
Some of you may like my latest essay at the Image Good Letters blog. Here’s an excerpt: “Telling a story along that thin thread, however,
The cowardice of the Chronicle
So The Chronicle of Higher Education has seen fit to fire Naomi Schaefer Riley for criticizing the state of what passes for “Black Studies” in
