The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

It is not the essence of humans to be passive. We are players. We are actors on many stages…. We are curious, we are yearning to wonder, we are longing to be amazed… to be...

…the higher the expectations about unselected alternatives, the lower the level of satisfaction with the chosen good.

I believe I am not mistaken in saying that Christianity is a demanding and serious religion. When it is delivered as easy and amusing, it is another kind of religion altogether.

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the...

I wouldn’t mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we’d all be in the same boat and life wouldn’t be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like....