Every Good Morning

I I was about 10 when I pushed a lightning bug into an ants’ nest and watched them carry it to its death. I remember no pleasure coming from this. I remember being curious. What would happen? I felt no emotion. At the time the Baltimore Catechism presented age 7 as the age of reason, the age at which we  left our innocence behind and became accountable for our actions […]

We are in a moment when the utopian imagination is in full throated roar – the belief that human beings can be ‘fixed’ by the proper mix of social engineering and ‘virtuous thinking’.  In these various propositions of both the left and right, racism will be banished, women will have more babies, crime will vanish because every mother’s son and daughter will be armed, public schools will crank out Christian […]

  I cannot read most news stories right now. The headlines and photos give me all I need to know. Storms and Fire. War. Pestilence. The Smiles of Tyrants. The Shame of Cowards. The End, the end, the end. I am not sleeping. The culture of this country and our political system is so decadent, so steeped in lies, so rigged for the wealthy, so devoid of seriousness, so childish, […]

  I’m thinking about powerful old men and how often grace abandons them. Joe Biden has been a very good president. He defeated Trump, and that, above all, makes him worthy of respect. Beyond that, his leadership brought us out of Covid and rescued the economy. He allied himself with Ukraine against Putin. There’s more, but you can do that research yourself. The first debate showed the evidence that his […]