I would have us capable of being moved by art, and then of moving because of it.

Computers are not The Answer to creating better students.

I kick her out of doors with an amorous foot applied to a splendid bottom. What a lucky foot!

Why is it taking so long for Americans to become “real” grown-ups?

I people really want to see the current state of the union, they need to take a look at my favorite part of Liberty State Park, which is the fact that it recently has been bisected – rent in two – by the Liberty National Golf Course.

Maybe the real question is whether we careerists are content to put our own personal “gains” ahead of the losses of many others, including our children’s.

Do you ever long for the place of your childhood? Does it still exist?

Gossip, under the right circumstances, acts as a virtue which demonstrates concern and thickens social ties.

It is a great loss that so many people—and they are usually considered very “successful”—raise their children in the absence of their extended families.

Going to the gym? Call a friend. Running an errand? Send a text. Eating something interesting? Take a picture and show the world on Facebook.

Today, there are no socially prescribed forms of conduct that help guide young men and women in the direction of matrimony.

It is generally the case, near as I can tell, that women were created mainly to keep men from enjoying themselves too much over the cigars.

It is time to reopen the questions about human nature, about human autonomy, about the desirability self-creation. Liberals should, in brief, broaden their horizons to ponder competing views of human flourishing.

Tradition supposedly bears the thumbprints of Roman patricians with browbeaten wives or frustrated monks who shivered in mediæval abbeys.

Today most symbols are gone, and gone with them is the sense of community cohesiveness that they used to communicate.

But should the storm clouds of summer move in suddenly, as they are sometimes wont to do, an inky red wine will answer to this simple meal of bread, tomatoes, garlic, basil, cheese, salt, pepper, and olive oil.

Our conception of nature is too thin, too reliant upon the conceptions of the ancient Stoics, and so requires the more robust visions of Aristotle and Aquinas if moral debate is not to become intractable.

The precincts of higher education have become so well known for their enormities and absurdities in the pursuit of political correctness that one may almost breeze past the latest episode at the University of Illinois—Champaign/Urbana. There, Kenneth Howell, an adjunct associate professor , has been fired for “hate speech.”