Greek Mythology has long been revered for its psychological profundity. It reveals and speaks to our most deep-seated aspirations and fears. When I was growing up, a revered English Professor, close to retirement and at the apogee of his career,…
Few things threaten the integrity of one’s sense of human dignity than the times and seasons when we feel we are powerless. At these times, when we feel we are at the mercy of forces beyond our control, whether sickness…
The American Holiday of Thanksgiving was formalized as a national celebration in 1863, although it was largely celebrated throughout the country for quite sometime before. I have always found this extremely interesting, because this was done in the midst of…
Classical philosophical thought has always considered love to be a quasi-deterministic force. Love, both in the human world, and the natural world which contains it, is something which seems to apply its own energy to the will of all creatures.…
The most effective form of censorship, bar none, is self-censorship. When a critical mass of people have surrendered themselves and their convictions to the tyranny of silence, to the authoritarian gag, one of the first prerogatives of a free and…