Once Albert Einstein was traveling on a train from Princeton. When the conductor came down the aisle punching tickets the great physicist reached into his vest pocket, but could not find his…
From my Salvo article, “Wilhelm Reich and the Irony of Liberation.” If the first sexual revolution was about enjoying sex without being encumbered with the possibility of child-bearing, the second sexual revolution…
The Greeks had a myth which told of an artist, Pygmalion, who fell in love with an ivory woman he sculpted. The goddess Aphrodite granted life to the statue, who then bore…
Earlier this year, for the first week of Great Lent, I had the opportunity to go to the Saint Herman of Alaska Eastern Orthodox monastery in Platina, California. It was a beautiful…
I am delighted to see a new edition of The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, featuring a new Afterword about smartphones and social media. On his website, Nicholas…
Last year I was interviewed for the Holistic Christian Life podcast about my book Gratitude in Life’s Trenches: How to Experience the Good Life Even When Everything Is Going Wrong. I don’t…
Recently I have had a number of friends ask me about geocentrism, the belief that the earth is immobile and at the center of the universe. So I decided to share this…
One of my favorite artworks was made by the French artist, Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). His sculpture called “The Arc of the Covenant” or “The Cathedral,” shows two intertwined right hands gently touching…
I have a Christian discussion group that meets every Saturday morning. At last Saturday’s discussion, one of the things we talked about were the sea turtles shown in the documentary Planet Earth…
I wanted to share two recent articles I’ve published elsewhere. The first, “What the Wartortle?! On Augmented Reality & Our Impending Blended Digitized Future” appeared in Salvo #60 and brings together some of…
Sometimes during times of disaster and great evil it is the ordinary people who step up to the plate–people no one would have expected to become great heroes. Witold Pilecki was such…
