Coincidentally: Heirs to the Hairless
Dr. Martin Routh, president of Magdalen College for 63 years, was the last Oxford don to wear a wig in…
Coincidentally: Detachment
To investigate the quack theory of animal magnetism, a hypothesis of Franz Mesmer, for whom mesmerism is named, King Louis…
Coincidentally: Taking Flight
In a recent motion picture, computer technology shows the monster Godzilla toppling the Chrysler Building onto my bedroom. Special effects…
Coincidentally: A Bridge to the Future
The promise to “build a bridge to the future” has become a mantra in recent politics. It is less cogent…
Coincidentally: More Varieties of Religious Experience
Felicitous arrangements allowed me as a student to repair weekly to practice the piano in a house by the Folly…
Coincidentally: A Variety of Spirits
For twenty-five years, Francisco Morales delivered milk to the lactarians of El Paso, Texas. This “Pancho,” who died in 1997…
Coincidentally: Who Says There are Two Cultures?
Different hemispheres of the brain govern intuitive artistry and inductive science. Atrophy of one of the lobes can cause either…
Coincidentally: A Song of India
Facing me every morning on the wall of the room where I take my coffee and cast a cold eye…
Coincidentally: The Time of the Singing of Birds
Any normal teenager who daydreams of becoming a famous feuilletonist will find no theme more promising than the coincidence of…
Coincidentally: We Band of Brothers
Bernard Severin Ingemann’s beloved Danish hymn ‘Igjemem Nat og Traengsel,” written in 1825, was published twenty-four years later in the Nyt…
Coincidentally: The Yankees and Wagner
In the shaky science of probability, it is considered bad form to ask, “How can you be sure?” The statistician…
Coincidentally: The Cradles of 1809
Regardless of how frequently we have been inspired by the parliamentary exchanges between Thomas Babington Macaulay and William Ewart Gladstone…
Coincidentally: The Savage Breast Soothed
As music is by a universal consent of philosophy the highest of arts, it can be counted on to have…
Coincidentally: Arma Virumque
By an instinct common to all youth who have not had pacifism violently hammered into them, the inventive child will…
Confessions…Of a Computer Hater
Make no mistake: I do not merely hate computers. I loathe, fear, despise, curse, and have constant torture and dismemberment fantasies…
St. Thomas More (1478-1535)
February 7 (the anniversary of his birth) It was the stubble. That, more than anything, drew me to Saint Thomas…
The Liberal Arts and Sexual Morality
Are the liberal arts and sexual morality connected? There is strong evidence that they are, for if we graph their…
Coincidentally: A Bridge to the Future
The promise to “build a bridge to the future” has become a mantra in recent politics. It is less cogent…
Your Inner Cop
Colson’s Law is named for the man I learned it from: Chuck Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries. It is…
