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What exactly is health? What do we mean by that word? What is a proper understanding of it?

Determining the exact role of posture is impossible, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t important for general human health.

Humanity should remain a larger category than political allegiance even as we openly—and, one hopes, bravely—discuss and work through our politics.

There’s little appetite for a response that begins with taking up our axes to clear the land for something better.

Whenever we see such an avoidance of questions like these, we are witnessing someone protecting an ideological dream world.

To whatever extent I imposed a narrative on experience, it was only because experience first imposed it upon me.

Beneath these critiques of the American medical system and the biological mysteries of the human body throbs a more existential question: How does one deal with suffering? These are some…

Human stories, centered around human persons in pursuit of wisdom, are the roots from which communities grow. We can be sure, by the sweat on the brows of each person…

What did Grandma really eat?

On the banks of a river, but can't get a drink.

The listlessness of modern death is that you might not even get a chance to show courage before you forget who you are.

Kearneysville, WV. Tis the season to be jolly. And the jolliest fellow of all is that rotund elf in the red suit. He’s happy. He’s spry. He binges on cookies…

Claremont, CA.  The most haunting, awful scenes in Thucydides’s history of the Pelopponesian war are those describing the Athenian plague. The plague emerged in the second year of the war,…