Month: October 2021

English literature as an academic discipline is in danger. Recent reports show that in the United States the number of ...

In a speech given to the 168 delegates at the Virginia Ratifying Convention on June 6, 1788, James Madison stated, ...

Hiking up my dorm’s stairs last Sunday evening after several days at home, I sighed. “I feel kind of…” “Homeless?” ...

“This Hill, though high, I covet to ascend, The difficulty will not me offend: For I perceive the way to life lies ...

Since March of 2020, Covid-19 has had a number of negative effects on American life, one of which has been ...

One of them had barely lit the fire when the one sitting farthest away spoke up, breaking the silence. “What ...

If you have been unfortunate enough to pay close attention to America’s “culture wars” over the past few years, you ...

The Brooklyn Nets’ Kyrie Irving is not what most people would consider a mental colossus. The man made headlines for ...

Progressive Christians often rail against conservatives as xenophobes who oppose illegal immigration to maintain their white, evangelical power. These open-border, ...

Upstanding fellows in Ancient Greece welcomed any uncomely stranger out of respect for the divine. Homer’s Odyssey opens with this ...

“Our job is to offer them refuge. Why should they trust us? The world is burning.”   Thus spoke Sandra Oh ...

On September 18, 1787, James McHenry, one of the Maryland delegates during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, wrote about an ...

Every decade or so has characteristics that represent that era’s Zeitgeist, or spirit of the age. This current generation has ...