notes for a new school

Overview His Dark Materials Illuminated , edited by Millicent Lenz and Carole Scott (Wayne State UP, 2005), is an intriguing but frustr...

Since last night, when I aired some less-than-charitable thoughts about His Dark Materials Illuminated at the end of another day-late Gameco...

For this MLK day, a time of strikes and marches , and hopefully a time for tension and perspective alike, here's a suggested film, text,...

I'm finally running out of Kierkegaard to read, coming to the end of my stack of scholarly paperbacks purchased at a bulk discount from ...

January is a good month for thinking about Greek and Latin roots--hence, for realizing how little you do know, nice as it is to know that li...

A lot of this comes out of spending Thanksgiving with Joe and Mel in Cleveland , reading and talking through Leaves of Grass with Alex , l...

Stories bring us together. We've known this forever. Nowadays, we are learning, they also drive us apart. Where are the good stories t...