Last Words of Great Men
A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath.
The Tallest god in the World
On the way to a conference, Sarah and I recently had the thrill of visiting Dubai. An impressive, ultra-modern city rising in the desert, Dubai’s scale is overwhelming. It had […]
A Road Trip with Peter Berger
Last Sunday, I spent 2 hours in a car with one of the most renowned sociologists of the 20th century. Peter L. Berger, born in Austria in 1929, is the […]
Postmodernism is Dead
British writer Edward Docx, writing for the UK-based Prospect Magazine, has announced to the world, “Postmodernism is dead.” How does he know? He points to some time ago, when the Victoria and […]
Confessions of a new Twitterer
Last Friday I became the 621,878,922th person to join Twitter[citation needed]. I inserted my noble name under the blue dove, spent an hour or so until Twitter accepted a proper […]
Why you need the new iPhone now!
Walking through Westfield—an enormous West London shopping mall—on a recent Wednesday, I noticed a queue of people outside the Apple store, complete with security guards monitoring the store’s inflow and […]
A Small But Tenacious Flame
To be a person of faith is to be well-acquainted with waiting. It is to be well-practiced in living in the in-between time of the world as it is and […]
On Mary Poppins and Feminism
Raise your hand if you’ve ever seen Mary Poppins. Now, raise your hand if you’ve ever noticed its not-so-subtle critique of patriarchy. I noticed the vaguely feminist critique of patriarchy […]
Mud Machine
In a recent book, Vieni Via con Me, Italian author Roberto Saviano points out a phenomenon which takes place in many of our contemporary societies: the mud machine.[1] Whenever someone […]
Mommy don’t go away!
My nine-month old son has just started bawling hysterically whenever I leave the room. It starts when I place him in someone else’s arms: he begins to push his trembling […]
Wondering Fair 