Speaking lips closed
The woman in the last booth guarding the Wichita airport parking lot exit likes my music. She has gray hair and a hardworn, windswept face,
Not home
On Sunday nights, after I’ve tucked in the boys, after I’ve packed my bags for another trip, I write each of them a note. I
Numbness of comfort
“I think it’s because when we are in situations where we cannot depend on anything but God’s provision, some dimension of our humanity comes out
On the Tweedledumbing of America
In the closing hours the advertisements are redoubled; we see the candidates peddling their functional families, juxtaposed with a grim gallery of closed factories and
Unbearable versus undead
It’s no secret, my stand on vampires, and my utter disregard for modern vampire literature, and especially for the received wisdom about what Dracula means.
On the virtue of getting over being offended
The AP headline is certainly startling: “41% OF NON-CHRISTIAN AF CADETS CITE PROSELYTIZING” My goodness, the reader is invited to think. What’s going on in
On the conservative as warmonger
The problem with political science professor Corey Robin’s claim that warmongering is woven into the DNA of conservatives is that he can’t seem to define
Selfless
Filing off the plane with our recalcitrant roller bags, our ponderous satchels. Ahead on the jet bridge, an elderly woman stumbles and goes down hard,
Another reason nobody reads anything worthwhile any more
More evidence of the paucity of literary education in high schools, from professors at the University of Arkansas, and reported by Mark Bauerlein: “First, the
Put me in a box
An organization of which I’ve been a big fan for years is the Institute for Justice, a team of Davids repeatedly taking on Goliaths who
The trouble with poetry
Adam Roberts begins a five-part manifesto on why you should be reading poetry: “I remember, as a young person, being posed the question, ‘what kind
The pumpkin patch
I think the cook at a local eatery gave me an e coli burger because he didn’t like my hat. That’s the theory I’ve been
