Throw the word “strategic” in front of another word and all of a sudden you have people’s attention and a new initiative. But like the emperor with no clothes, sooner or later, that booty is getting exposed. Strategy Is Not… In determining the essence of a thing, it’s helpful to...
One way is to lean into a life-long quest for authentic freedom. Too often we associate freedom with aspiring to be somewhere we aren’t or to be someone the world tells us is better than who we are. Franciscan priest Richard Rohr has a different take: “Freedom,” he writes, “is ...
Utah's is not the only example of Americans' turning to seemingly obscure provisions of the Constitution to protect themselves as the dollar's value slips. Another recent instance directs our attention back to the courts, where the question of the value of the dollar was for so long fought ...
Perhaps with the exception of a select group of Scandinavian fi lm experts and enthusiasts, Benjamin Christensen is regarded— when regarded at all—as a weirdly interloping fi gure, much in the way his masterpiece is seen as wild and unmoored from other parts of cinema. Born the last of...
Unmoored and reeling, she finds herself trying to pull herself together in small town Senatobia, Mississippi, as she cares for her 91-year-old grandmother who With What's Left Unsaid, Emily Bleeker gives readers a book with two complicated and compelling story lines, each filled with complex ...
Because it is only a matter of time until we experience another one. Untreated mentally ill young men are not going away. They live all around us in our communities and on our college campuses. Most will never be violent toward others, but thousands will be violent toward themselves. Yet ...
it makes up for in explanatory power. When polled, far too many Republicans come across as having abandoned their commitment to libertarianism, family values or simple logic in favor of Trump worship. They’re lost to paranoia and factually unmoored talking points, just the way Hassan was lost...
The thing is – it’s still in there somewhere, isn’t it? Like, it’s stored away as a nugget of doubt and this latest thing with the shirt feels like another added to the pile…and I don’t want there to be a pile building up because I’ve found that once you start to accum...
“[That's] another way of sayingno oneis.” When you're dating in America, under 40 years of age or so, you're sorting through a massive pool of people who are completely convinced thattheyare special - and, as special people, they expect nothing but the absolutebest. ...