
Pluribus and the Upside of Sin
Pluribus is the most morally interesting show since Breaking Bad and its sequel Better Call Saul. What these shows have in common is Vince Gilligan,

Pluribus is the most morally interesting show since Breaking Bad and its sequel Better Call Saul. What these shows have in common is Vince Gilligan,

I tend to think you’re all in West Michigan, Canada, and Northwest Iowa, but the computer tells a different story: China, Australia, South Africa, Germany,

My mom died never knowing the rise of Donald Trump in American politics. On June 16, 2015, about 20 months after her death, Trump rode

The other day, I came across this photo I’d snapped of Muhammad Ali signing an autograph on January 17, 1988. We were in a strip

The Second Amendment is a sacred cow. It was written in a different time with primitive firearms and no standing army. The writers of the

Socrates, who famously said that the unexamined life is not worth living, never met Doyle Shields, the main character in Thomas Lynch’s novel No Prisoners.

It occurred to me (not for the first time, but this was a fresh reminder) that I grew up in a world made for me.

We lived outside Cincinnati, Ohio when I was a kid and my great-grandfather, Howard Sumner Munroe (he always claimed his initials “H. S.” stood for

Much of the data on our readers can be filed under “Everything you think you know is wrong.” I tend to think the same faithful