Contraception and Signs of Contradiction: Part II
The Yoke of Nature and Human Vocation. When it comes to marriage and the having of children we experience these gifts, burdens, and yokes...
Contraception and Signs of Contradiction: Part I
Contraception as Apparent Moral Good. Most persons who use contraception conceive of it as a moral good. They see an unruly, pullulating nature directed...
Against Great Books
I make available, below, the text of a lecture I delivered in November, 2011, at University of Texas at Austin. My thanks to the...
April Advent
While April first brought April Fools’ Day with all of its jokes and gags, the foolish part of the first of April was not...
Gender Matters
In the spring of 2011, articles began popping up about a couple in Toronto who were refusing to publicly reveal the gender of their...
The Eckhart Tolle of Space
“Many propositions involving temporal concepts which seem obviously and necessarily true are just as necessarily but not obviously true when formulated in terms of...
In the Creeks and Along the Rails: Tales from Pollock
I was born in Natchitoches, Louisiana, a town known, if it is known at all, for four things: it is the oldest city in...
Among the Mad Farmers: Chicago Good Food Festival and Conference
“If you’ve never worked a tradeshow booth,” a business pal once remarked to me, “you’re not a real American.” True dat. At the Good...
Unbidden Beauty
The urbane residents of New York City like to appear austerely bored at their hometown's famous sites: the Empire State Building is an overrated...
