I’ve had branding on the brain since last summer when my college went through a process of changing its logo. After focus groups and consultants

Although Martin Luther King’s birthday was actually yesterday, the United States will mark the occasion next Monday. Once more we’ll hear the familiar quotations rehearsed

The number of the new year always has a little magic in it for me, at least until I get to the point of entering

I was going to write on why “Oh Little Town of Bethlehem” means so much to me as a Christmas carol, but the latest blow-up

In the summer of 1843, as Isabella Van Wagenen set out on the road as Sojourner Truth, Orestes Brownson was publishing a series of articles

As an escape from the terrorists–that is, from the obsessive coverage designed to keep us in fear, the media in cash, and the perpetrators in

Another good thing about retirement is that if your schedule gets screwed up, you don’t have to sweat it so much; most tomorrows are open.

by James Bratt Two weeks ago, in his post “Ordinary Dust,” Jason Lief memorably described one of those bad teaching days that every college professor—maybe

I’ve just finished the first two weeks of the rest of my life. As a few of you know, and as more of you may