Redeem the Time

Recently saw "Jersey Boys" and was struck by what seemed to me to be a sub-text; that is, for a group of guys who grew up within t...

Recently I wrote about school reform mostly as a way to make a point about the current state of political apathy and to make a call for wide...

It is possible to define civilization  as opposed to other terms that signify groups of people: tribe, clan, gang, society, culture. While t...

There are two conceptual problems when trying to talk about “school reform.” The first is that those who are already involved in the debate...

Yesterday I had lunch with 17 men whose only common bonds were their friendship with and affection for Pat Mullen and their having gone to t...

"Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and wrong and are a matter of what the majority are d...

My perception is that we live in a particularly confounding time, and the more history, literary criticism, and culture criticism I read, th...