The View from This Seat

This post is being made at 9:00 a.m. CST in the U.S., but in Japan (where I long lived), it is midnight and the beginning of a new year acco...

As Christmas Day is now less than a week away, let’s think about the Christmas song “Go Tell It on the Mountain.” That beloved song was orig...

Hannah Arendt, the noted historian and philosopher, died 50 years ago, on December 4, 1975. Since totalitarianism was one of the main themes...

“Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most.” Those are words from the movie Secondh...

Perhaps many of you don’t remember much (or anything) about Martin of Tours. But he is a man worth recalling, and his commitment to non-viol...

  As some of you may remember, in his 2020 Democratic National Convention acceptance speech, Joe Biden stated that “hope and history rhyme,”...

Do you like poetry? I do (to some extent), but I find it hard to read. That is, poetry needs to be read slowly, and I don’t often take the t...