What Are You Reading This Summer?
The return of summertime every year often recalls the years that will never return: the golden days of youth. The energy,…
Coincidentally: Before Incunabula
Some essays write themselves and this is one of them. In 1996 the philanthropist George W. Mallinckrodt gave a substantial…
Coincidentally: Hearing Secret Harmonies
The Civil War was raging, and a Confederate sentry heard the sound of a voice coming from marshland behind enemy…
The Birds: When the Wind Changes Overnight
For all their disagreements, scientific fact and science fiction are in agreement concerning the viral quality of fear. Men tend to…
Coincidentally: All Gas and Gaiters
Irony was strained the United Nations’ “Earth Summit” in 1997 when President Clinton and President Chirac and Prime Minister Blair…
Coincidentally: Arma Virumque
By an instinct common to all youth who have not had pacifism violently hammered into them, the inventive child will…
The Writing Is on the Web
With the unfolding of spring comes a renewed awareness and appreciation for life. It is peculiar, though, how the observation of…
The Divine Tragedy of Achilles
As the heroes of The Iliad are slain in blood, Homer gives each of them an epitaph in poetry, that they may die…
Coincidentally: Names Proper and Improper
Of all the blithe habits that befog our culture as it careens toward wreckage, one of the most annoying is…
These Parables: Laborers in the Vineyard
Lord Palmerston, or certainly some such confident Victorian, said: “If you do well here, you’ll do well there.” Many Christians…
