Why the Best Art Conceals Effort
There are various famous Americanisms about “rolling up our sleeves," "hard work paying off,” and “pulling ourselves up by our own bootstraps.” Collectively, we admire effort. We…
The University Before the University
Some years ago, while I was working on my own doctoral dissertation, my chair gave me a short list of professors linking our program to the founder…
Nikos Kazantzakis: Lawyer, Author, Intellectual Terrorist
When I was an undergraduate student at Villanova, I stumbled upon the foreign literature section of the library. Naturally, some sections were larger than others, but the…
The Medieval Roots of Modern Psychology
The clinical practice of psychology often tells a story about its own nativity that is implicitly triumphalist. Since the time of the Enlightenment, we are said to…