Amid the scattered remnants of Heraclitus, a wise old Greek who lived twenty-five hundred years ago, there are one or two fragments that have managed to find their way into the text of Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot’s poetic masterpiece on the meaning of time and history, which he reproduces in order to illustrate something of…

It has been quite the year since I first wrote critically about the “marital debt” debate. The LSU Tigers dominated the Iowa Hawkeyes to claim their school’s first NCAA title; we discovered that parrots like video calls; and I was forced to scroll through endless “Barbenheimer” memes. Oh, and my wife and I had a…

Last week I appealed to you to help us raise the $60,000 we need for this Christmas season, one of two times each year when we invite the financial support of our loyal readers to help us cover our expenses. I’m sorry to report we did not come close to raising that amount. There are…