School Rampage Killers: A Psychological Portrait
July 8, 2026The shooter had convinced himself that killing was gutsy and masculine. Based on his misreadings of...
History of Madness by Michel Foucault
June 3, 2026By the 1700s the “correctional” metaphor prevails and most of them are placed in moral and...
Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage
May 13, 2026Like the disappearance of the well-mannered and respectful adolescent, the imminent (or, for some commentators, already...

Hannah Coulter – by Wendell Berry
May 8, 2026There was a time, not many decades ago, that most of America’s population labored on family...

Trailer Watch: Brandon Cronenberg’s Antiviral
March 29, 2026Cronenberg's target is the cult of celebrity. As ravenously as we seek to expose and share...
Roses & Bulbul Birds
December 19, 2025What’s intriguing about the dreadful psychology of Muslim, particularly Shiite [read Hizbollah] fundamentalism, is that aspect...
Nick Bottom’s Blessing
December 17, 2025The relativism that relishes diversity for diversity's sake is one that eschews æsthetic judgment or choice....






