Living in the Wreckage

You know what's sad? Watching someone you once respected devolve into an unserious, irrational partisan. It makes you wonder if maybe th...

The refrain is repeatedly heard among evangelicals of a more progressive sort these days that "you can't be a single issue voter....

Why is hope such a difficult thing to hold onto? Why does it feel so much more likely that nothing will turn out like you want it to, that u...

Daniel Flynn’s “Blue Collar Intellectuals” tells the story of several prominent thinkers and writers of the mid-twentieth century who eithe...

I have struggled my entire life with needing to please other people. At times this has placed me in situations of mostly unnecessary misery....

I recall my perplexity upon finishing Solzhenitsyn’s “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” for the first time. I knew that the book had w...

About six months ago, I wrote here about my decision to leave my stable, decent paying job with health insurance in order to move 50 miles a...